Canada and Google

Google: In an interview with The Canadian Press, Schmidt talked about the company growing presence in Canada, going up against former privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, and his unabashed love for BlackBerry, according to CTV. Schmidt: We have something like 400 engineers and something like 700 or 800 employees here and I always knew Waterloo was a fantastic engineering centre. What recently happened is the University of Toronto and Montreal have become real centres for machine intelligence. So within Google in the U.S., we're hiring people from Canada to solve the fundamental problems of artificial intelligence and that a new fact. It didn't used to be, you tend to think Waterloo was a programming languages university and they broadened what they were trying to do and - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt made a rare visit to Canada on Wednesday, to help announce a $1.5 million grant to support the educational charity Actua and speak at an event promoting his new book "How Google Works," written with Jonathan Rosenberg, an adviser to CEO Larry Page. CP: What is Canada reputation within Google, what are the offices and employees in Waterloo, Ont., Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto known for? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.