A Google ‘first’ for the Technion


Jerusalem Post
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
10/17/2011 05:26

Prof. Dan Shechtman’s Nobel Prize, Google Street View putting Haifa, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on the map.

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has become the first Israeli university to be photographed for Google Street View.

Dr. Avital Stein, the Technion’s deputy president and director-general, said that “the Nobel Prize announcement again put the university on the map, and now Google arrives and actually puts us on the map with magnificent photographs.

“Many Technion graduates are working at Google, and the Technion has many cooperative projects with it,” she said.

The photographers intended to remain on campus for one day but because of its size, had to continue for another full day.

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A Google ‘first’ for the Technion


Jerusalem Post
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
10/17/2011 05:26

Prof. Dan Shechtman’s Nobel Prize, Google Street View putting Haifa, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on the map.

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has become the first Israeli university to be photographed for Google Street View.

Dr. Avital Stein, the Technion’s deputy president and director-general, said that “the Nobel Prize announcement again put the university on the map, and now Google arrives and actually puts us on the map with magnificent photographs.

“Many Technion graduates are working at Google, and the Technion has many cooperative projects with it,” she said.

The photographers intended to remain on campus for one day but because of its size, had to continue for another full day.

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Google sponsors Technion research.
Is smart being greedy? Tomorrow’s internet.
Microsoft partners with Technion.