Abstract

Alan would be looking primarily to talk about Google Apps, one of Google's University Relations initiatives where we partner with universities to help them improve their ability to share information and ideas more easily, and release their IT resources. Further public information about the initiative can be found at: http://www.google.com/a/edu/.

In addition, Alan may touch upon Google's Research Award Program as Google is active in partnering with universities re. research and publications, although this is less well known.

About the speaker

Recently Google announced the appointment of Alan Noble as Engineering Director, Google Australia. Alan's role is to manage the growth of Google Australia's engineering and R&D centre. Alan joins Google from NetPriva, a software company he co-founded and most recently served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer for nearly two years . In 1996 he founded NetMind in California which was acquired in 2000 by Intellisync, subsequently acquired by Nokia. He remained at Intellisync as VP of Engineering until 2002, until joining Foursticks as CTO, where he was instrumental in bringing Foursticks technology to market. The Foursticks technology was acquired by NetPriva in 2005. Alan has been granted seven U.S. patents and has several others pending.