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Social Localisation at Twitter- translating the world in 140 Characters - LRC XVII Thomas Arend
Thomas Arend, International Product Lead at Twitter, giving his keynote on social localisation at twitter at the 17th Annual LRC Conference in Limerick on 20 September 2012. Before joining Twitter, Thomas led Mozilla #39;s mobile effort as the Principal PM. Prior to Mozilla, he led important initiatives at Dr. Thomas Arend PhDGoogle for five years, driving the company #39;s localization in 40+ languages and launching "Google Translator Toolkit", a community-based translation tool that supports almost 400 languages and dialects. Thomas also changed the face of the Google homepage for hundreds of millions of users with background image personalization. Previously, Thomas was at the IBM Research Center and at SAP, where he developed SAP #39;s mobile technology, and acted as a strategic consultant to the CEO and the executive team. At SAP, Thomas launched the world #39;s first mobile business application for a Tablet PC device in 2001. Thomas holds a Masters degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Berlin Technical Institute. He earned his PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction in 2003.From:LocResCentreViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:06:24More inEducation

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