Ms Byron is one of 419 students (out of 8,744 who applied) who were accepted for Google's "summer of code". While it sounds like a hyper-nerdy summer camp, the students neither went to Google's campus in Mountain View, California, nor to wherever their mentors at the 41 participating open-source projects happened to be located. Instead, Google acted as a matchmaker and sponsor. Each of the participating open-source projects received $500 for every student it took on; and each student received $4,500 ($500 right away, and $4,000 on completion of their work). Oh, and a T-shirt.
All of this is the idea of Chris DiBona, Google's open-source boss, who was brainstorming with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, last year. They realised that a lot of programming talent goes to waste every summer because students take summer jobs flipping burgers to make money, and let their coding skills degrade. "We want to make it better for students in the summer", says Mr. DiBona, adding that it also helps the open- source community and thus, indirectly, Google, which uses lots of open-source software behind the scenes. Plus, says Mr. DiBona, "it does become an opportunity for recruiting".
Elliot Cohen, a student at Berkeley, spent his summer writing a "Bayesian network toolbox" for Python, an open-source programming language. "I'm a pretty big fan of Google", he says. He has an interview scheduled with Microsoft, but "Google is the only big company that I would work at", he says. And if that doesn't work out, he now knows people in the open-source community, "and it's a lot less intimidating".
Ms Byron's comment on her own summer experiment is ______.
A.negative
B.biased
C.puzzling
D.enthusiastic
第1题
下列不属于研究阿波罗宇宙飞船带回的月球岩石和土壤得到的信息的一项是()。
A.可以此研究太阳系早期星际事件
B.可以此进一步认识地球
C.可以此进一步认识月球
D.可记述月海内岩浆流的时序
第2题
A.可以此研究太阳系早期星际事件
B.可以此进一步认识地球
C.可以此进一步认识月球
D.可记述月海内岩浆流的时序
第4题
A.京广铁路
B.成昆铁路
C.道清铁路
第5题
第一次乘坐阿波罗11号宇宙飞船成功登上月球的航天员是哪国的? ()
A. 英国
B. 中国
C. 美国
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