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MAGGIE JOHNSON: The opportunities
that students get by getting a fellowship from Google
are really pretty significant.
Not only do we provide three years of funding,
but we also provide a Google sponsor--
so someone who, along with their academic mentor,
is actually helping them in their research pursuits.
So we really give them a lot of insight
into the industry view while they're working
on their academic experiences.
IAN GOODFELLOW: Receiving the PhD Fellowship really
gave me a lot of freedom to pursue my own research
directions and my own projects.
As a PhD Fellowship recipient, you're
free to do whatever you want.
And you can drop a lot of the smaller things
that you're working on and work on something really ambitious.
MAYA GUPTA: This program gives us
the chance to tap into some of the budding talent
and get to know researchers and research
programs throughout the world who
might be thinking about things from different perspectives
than we have.
ED CHI: I decided to become a mentor because I've always
found interacting with students to be very vibrant,
and they bring a useful energy to new ideas and new innovation
methods that we may not have necessary considered here
at Google.
JEFF DEAN: What I often tell young researchers and people
earlier in their career is the best way to learn things is
to work with people who know things that you don't.
Collaboratively, you can then solve problems that none of you
could do individually.
MAGGIE JOHNSON: Think about how these cutting-edge technologies
that are so present right now--
things like machine learning and deep learning,
even quantum as it's starting to emerge--
is to think about how these are actually
going to impact society and the people who use them.
MAYA GUPTA: We're trying to tackle
some really hard research problems here at Google.
And so having that two-way communication between Google
and Google Research and the rest of the research community
is just really great and really important.
MAGGIE JOHNSON: We want to make sure that we are together
preparing this next generation for all kinds
of exciting and innovative things.