My name is Hugh williams and I'm the
vice president of Google Maps at Google
it's an amazing time to be a computer
scientist there's a lot going to be
happening in computer science over the
next few years. I think it's an amazing
career paths for students who have
graduated. One of the core things that
you learn in computer science here at
RMIT is just how to write software.
Writing software will never go out of
fashion.
So when you've really got those those
fundamentals of computer science they'll
really stand you in good stead in
whatever career you choose to do.
You can do anything today from testing software
which is incredibly hard and incredibly
important through to building software, which is I think what most people associate with
computer science,  through to a very
important area called product management
where you actually figure out what users
want and what is that companies should
build to help those users. As a Vice
President at Google one of the
things I really look for in graduates and
people who are coming into the company is
people who have a really is a
cross-disciplinary approach to computing.
I think it's, at the core, it's
incredibly important that you can write
and build great software but what's really
important is that you can communicate
with others and understand skills that
others bring. All sorts of things are
being disrupted and changed by the power
of computing it's a really great time to
get involved.
