It’s well known Google likes to go after the best and the brightest when it comes to staffing considerations. To ensure they do get bright applicants, Google’s talent recruitment has used a number of innovative methods to attract what is considered a promising prospect.
Wayne Rosing, part of Google’s talented stable, is one who could be considered part of the best and brightest group. He’s worked for Sun Microsystems, assisting in the development of the Java programming language and parlayed that into a vice president of Engineering for Google. However, Wayne also had outside interests that ultimately led to his retirement from the search engine (which was undoubtedly helped along by Google’s successful IPO).
While having all of these notable positions within the technology sector, Rosing never gave up interest in his hobby: telescopes. Since his retirement, Rosing has been devoting his time to a development project that may improve all aspects of using a telescope to view the galaxies.
According to an article appearing in Space.com, Rosing was awarded a fellowship at the University of California to assist in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project. The telescope in question will be able to produce images containing 3,000 megapixels. This will allow astronomers to view the universe in a new light, as it were.
Understandable, Rosing is quite pleased with this change of pace, intellectually speaking. A quote from the Space.com article reveals as much, “It’s really fun to change gears, write software, get on machines and assemble parts. It’s a real pleasure”
The LSST is expected to be ready for use by 2012.
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for murdok. Visit murdok for the latest search news.
