Google China Founder to Speak at CMU

The founder and president of Google China will give a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on Friday.

Kai-Fu Lee, a former Carnegie Mellon professor, will discuss how Google became the biggest Chinese Internet search engine at a time when other Internet companies were pulling out of the Communist country.

The free lecture begins at 4 p.m. in McConomy Auditorium, in University Center near Forbes Avenue in Oakland.

Lee, a former vice president at Microsoft, was the subject of a legal battle between Microsoft and Google in 2005 because he had signed a contract saying he wouldn’t work for a competing organization but then joined Google.

Originally published by The Tribune-Review.

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