Google, Global Warming and more; notes from Fri, Aug 11

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Sketch map of China  - 5 identifications:
3 cities, 1 body of water, 2 neighbors.

The skill of documentation, formal (footnotes, as in wikipedia.org) & informal (according to ...), is also called attribution; also citation.
Abbreviate World Geography, A Global Perspective: WG.

Class notes from reading, lecture and the board: space them well. 

august: important

Thu Aug 17, open notes quiz. 
- Prep each day: Write an example question and give it to a classmate.


Getting an atlas: La Boardwalk / Borders Books
Order from Amazon.com

Brief essay: China’s exploding economy and the new middle class has createde a need for cars - which need petroleum. China - of a sudden - makes a substantial demand for oil. Thus the consumerism of the rising Chinese middle class is part of the reason our prices stand at almost $3 gal.

Outsourcing: having work done outside our nation so as to save money. Ex: tech support via phone being done by people in Taiwan, Philippines, Canada, etc.

Activity:
Write brief notes on this article (see this website): “Google Inc.”
* Skip lines.
* Use one to 3 words.
Match your notes with mine afterwards. Ask questions about why there might be a difference.

Silicon valley / Google Inc, p.1

- 1998
- most-used search engine
- Mt View, Ca
- Eric Schmidt, CEO / triumvirate
- Larry Page, co-founder
- misspelling “googol “ / 1 followed by a hundred zeros
- verb: “to google”
Google 54% market share
Yahoo 23%
MSN 13%
* Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Stanford U.

p. 2
* Palo Alto, Ca (“tall pole”), home of Stanford University.
* Silicon Valley: home to software and computer developers such as Apple, H-P, Intel, IBM, Sun Microsystems and others. Lies between san Francisco and San Jose.
* Google's simple, uncluttered design
* selling ads
* revenue based on no of hits on ads

Sergey Brin:
entrepreneur
Russian
billionaire
emigrated from Moscow at 6
father& mother are mathematicians.
loved math and computers.
U of Maryland, BS degree.
Stanford, Masters degree.
loved data-mining and pattern extraction.
made website for film ratings.


Both Page and Brin give credit to Montessori school educations for some of their success. Maria Montessori was an Italian doctor who created an educational plan with emphasis on independent learning.

Also in the news:
$500 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recent gift to world health agencies.