Alfred Spector

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Alfred Spector retired from Google in early 2015. In his 7+ years at Google, Alfred Spector was responsible for research at Google and also Google’s open source, university relations, internationalization, Google.org engineering, and many education initiatives. Dr. Spector spoke widely on research and innovation, and he devoted much time to helping Google connect to the university research community. He advocated Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research, which is based on having a flexible organization that makes technology transfer easier, smaller teams which are better able to quickly create, launch and iterate products, and a belief that researchers should strive for impact that scales, allowing discoveries to benefit the world through rapid and broad dissemination. Dr. Spector also spoke widely about “CS+X,” which is short-hand for the argument that the hybridization of computer science with every other discipline (x) would increasingly impact education, research, products, and even s

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New York, US