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NerfBoard: A failed attempt to create the next great pub game

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It all started as a joke. A bunch of bored graduate students started throwing a foam dart at a whiteboard. This morphed into software that combined an interactive touch display with Nerf guns. More and more students started playing. Anything to keep us from working on our dissertations. This distraction turned into an even larger one when we somehow convinced our supervisor to get involved. This...

Turning search queries into AI-powered conversations with Business Messages

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Original article posted on Google Developers blog. Google’s Business Messages lets customers message a business directly from Google Search, Google Maps, and any brand-managed property. Developers on Business Messages can leverage tools like Dialogflow to create AI-powered conversational experiences, where customers can chat with lifelike virtual agents that understand, interact, and talk in...

My journey from small town kid to Google developer relations

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I’ve told parts of this story in presentations in the past, but this is the detailed version of the key moments throughout my education and career that have led to where I am today. So, how exactly did a kid growing up in small town rural Canada find himself at one of the most influential technology companies in the world? Growing up in Canada’s Chocolate Town I grew up in a small town in Canada...

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