Allen Hutchison

The Google Mobile Blog article Google Translate now for iPhone said

A few months ago I was planning a vacation to Austria and Italy. I knew a few words and phrases in German and Italian, but that was about it. So I looked around for some portable language dictionaries. I thought Google Translate was great, but the web page didn’t work that well on the iPhone. So I teamed up with David Singleton, a fellow engineer in our London office, to build an iPhone interface for Google Translate.
 
Google Translate for iPhone is optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand, even if you can’t use the local data network. We wrote this using the AJAX Language API, so every time the Google Translate team updates the languages they support, the languages will automatically be added here.

Allen Hutchison is Engineering Manager at Google. His specialties are bootstrapping new teams, automation, scripting, testing, and Perl.
 
Allen was previously QA Lead Engineer at Firetide, Senior Software Engineer at Airgo Networks, and Software Engineer at Cisco Systems.
 
He authored Our conference on automated testing, Reading Books on iPhone 2.0, Keeping up with friends, Google Translate for iPhone, Why does an iPhone need a computer?, Randy Pausch Last Lecture, Do you remember your first Google?, Hiking in Austria, Attention Bankruptcy, London at night, Data Backups, It’s time to ditch the proprietary protocols, and London Underground Tube Status.
 
Watch the Google TechTalks Allen Hutchison – First Principles and Google London Test Automation Conference Opening. Read his blog Letters From Exile: Allen Hutchison’s Blog about technology, photography, gadgets, living in London, and more. Watch his Interview of Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek.
 
Allen studied Cognitive Science from September 1994 to May 1999 at Indiana University and studied Information Technology from September 1999 to May 2003 at the University of Phoenix where he earned his BS.