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 […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg