Google starts awesome new college course; cuts 20% time in half

Okay, this is really cool. According to the Seattle P-I, Google is creating a college course at UW for, essentially, teaching students how to create massively scalable and reliable systems. I would've loved this during college (actually, I essentially did this course as an independent study type class with the awesome Svetlozar Nestorov -- also founder of Mobissimo and Ph.D. candidate with the Google Guys).

But, almost as noteworthy, the P-I writes:

Bisciglia would design the course under Google's "10 percent" program, which allows employees to use 10 percent of their work time to dream up big ideas.

Uh oh, maybe Google is finding that 20% projects take up too much time, and halved that? Oh noes! Is the free food next?

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