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Presidential Candidates Visit Google

Last Friday, Senator John McCain of Arizona, and 2008 Republican presidential frontrunner, visited Google for a talk as part of their Authors@Google series (yeah, he wrote a book). Google CEO Eric Schmidt interviewed him, and a 67-minute video of that event has been uploaded by Google to YouTube:

Such an amazing man. Really, just full of qualities that no other candidate possesses. If only he was a decade younger (and I say that with all seriousness, if you’ve been following the campaigns).

Gotta love Eric Schmidt’s opening question:

How do you determine good ways of sorting 1 million 32-bit integers in two megabytes of RAM?

Anyone who can answer that without thinking, well, do you think they should be President? Maybe a technology adviser to the President, but not the Chief.

Google expects to have all the major Presidential candidates speak at their campus, and have sent invitations to all of them. Hillary Clinton spoke there in February:

Just to note: McCain’s mike didn’t work, so they handed him a handheld mike, and he kept that thing up for almost 70 minutes. McCain’s arms are permanently damaged, courtesy of the North Vietnamese, to the point where he can’t hold them above his head, and he held that mike just below it for over an hour. That’s something I would have found tough!

More coverage of McCain’s talk here.
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May 7th, 2007 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Googleplex, Culture, General | 4 comments