Google Moonshots and MassCAN: How Education is Changing in MA

Speaker: Steve Vinter, Engineering and Site Director, Google Cambridge

Google Moonshots and MassCAN: How Education is Changing in Massachusetts

Many changes in technology aren't gradual -- they suddenly take huge leaps. Why? Given such leaps, how can we best prepare our children for a future that is so technologically advanced that we can't predict it?

Let's talk about some recent Google "moonshots" announcements, some recent technological advances, and about how education is changing in Massachusetts to prepare our children to be competitive in our future "information economy".

Steve Vinter is currently engineering director of Google’s Cambridge, Massachusetts office. Since Steve joined Google in March 2007, the office has grown from 50 to more than 800 people, with an engineering team working on Web Search, Play Books, Chrome, ChromeOS, YouTube and networking infrastructure. Before coming to Google, Steve worked in the high tech industry in the Boston area for more than 20 years, including at BBN, Siemens-Nixdorf, D&B Software, Software.com, and Openwave Systems. He has focused on developing products and services for users of mobile and cloud computing used by hundreds of millions of people.

Steve started his career as a software engineer at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, developing software for the statistical analysis of survey data.  Steve received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and statistics from the University of Michigan in 1978 and a master’s and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983 and 1985, respectively. Steve is passionate about computer science education, and co-founded MassCAN to help every student in Massachusetts learn about computing during their K-12 education. He is VP and board member of the Kendall Square Association, an executive committee member of the Massachusetts IT Collaborative, a member of MA’s STEM Advisory Council, Board member of the Community Charter School of Cambridge Board, Board Overseer at the Museum of Science, advisor to Citizen Schools, and member of the Advisory Council of MIT's Office of Engineering Outreach Programs.

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