Google (GOOG) Opens 2nd R/D Facility in Israel
Written by: Zack Miller | June 4, 2007
Reuters out with a story that Google is opening (has opened?) a 2nd R&D facility in Tel Aviv, Israel. Joining greats like Intel and Microsoft, the Google Train rolls big time into the country to tap some of the best programmers in the world.
In addition to the Haifa-based-20-member team and a sales office in Tel Aviv of about 15, Google (GOOG) Tel Aviv has about 30 employees currently and is headed by Yossi Matias, who Reuters describes as ” a scientist and expert on algorithms, databases and Internet technologies.”
I found a biography on Matias here. Pretty heavy hitter — he holds over 20 US patents, won the 2005 Goedel Prize for “The space complexity of approximating the frequency moments,” Journal of Computer and System Sciences 58 (1999), 137-147, first presented at the 28th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 1996.”, and maintains a pretty eclectic taste in music.
This center is one of ten global R&D facilities Google runs in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
We’ve thought it was about time that global leaders in Web technologies set up shop here. Tel Aviv U. and Technion have long put out leading scientists working on large databases, machine learning, and complex algorithms.
It looks like our suggestions have finally been GOOGLED!
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