Posted by Peter NorvigEveryone else is giving you year-end top ten lists of their favorite movies, so we thought we'd give you ours, but we're skipping Cars and The Da Vinci Code and giving you autonomous cars and open source code. Our top twenty (we couldn't stop at ten):Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge: Sebastian Thrun stars in the heartwarming drama of a little car that could.The Graphing Calculator Story: A thriller starring Ron Avitzur as the engineer who snuck into the Apple campus to write code.Should Google Go Nuclear?: Robert Bussard...
Monday, 11 December 2006
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Posted by Lilly Irani & Jens Riegelsberger, User Experience team9am Mountain View, California. 6pm Zurich, Switzerland. The two of us sit separated by thousands miles, telephones tucked under our ears, talking about this blog post and typing words and edits into Google Docs. As we talk about the title, we start typing into the same paragraph -- and Lilly gets a warning: "You've edited a paragraph that Jens has been editing!" Lilly stops typing so she doesn't lose her thoughts and coordinates with Jens over the phone. Then we realize "We just...
Friday, 22 September 2006
Posted by Proud GooglersWe're usually a modest bunch, but we we couldn't help but let you know about some honors and awards bestowed on Googlers recently: Ramakrishnan Srikant is the winner of the 2006 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award for his work on pruning techniques for the discovery of association rules, and for developing new data mining approaches that respect the privacy of people in the data base. Henry Rowley and Shumeet Baluja, along with CMU professor Takeo Kanade, received the Longuet-Higgins prize for "a contribution which has stood the...
Thursday, 3 August 2006
Posted by Alex Franz and Thorsten Brants, Google Machine Translation TeamHere at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction, entity detection, information extraction, and others. While such models have usually been estimated from training corpora containing at most a few billion words, we have been harnessing the vast power of Google's datacenters and distributed processing infrastructure to process larger and larger training...
Wednesday, 12 July 2006
Posted by Allen Hutchison, Engineering ManagerAs we noted earlier, we're hosting our first-ever Conference on Test Automation in London in September.We've heard from many interested parties, and now have 13 excellent presentations lined up. Now we are soliciting people who want to attend. Because we expect lots of interest and space is limited, we're asking everyone who's interested to write a short note (400 words or less) on why you want to be there. There's an easy form for requesting a spot, and we hope to hear from you. The deadline for writing...
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Posted by Michele Covell & Shumeet Baluja, Research ScientistsEuro ITV (the interactive television conference) took place in Athens last week. The presentations included a diverse collection of user studies, new application areas, and exploratory business models. One of the main themes was the integration of multiple information sources. For example, during a time-out in a live sporting event, some viewers may enjoy reviewing highlight footage, while others may prefer to view a parallel program to view player profiles and statistics before...
Friday, 2 June 2006
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. students to write a binary search, and then dissected one of our implementations in front of the class. Of course it was broken, as were most of our implementations. This made a real impression on me, as did the treatment of this material in his wonderful Programming Pearls (Addison-Wesley, 1986; Second Edition, 2000). The key lesson was to carefully consider the invariants in your programs.Fast forward...
Friday, 28 April 2006
Posted by Franz Och, Research ScientistBecause we want to provide everyone with access to all the world's information, including information written in every language, one of the exciting projects at Google Research is machine translation. Most state-of-the-art commercial machine translation systems in use today have been developed using a rules-based approach and require a lot of work by linguists to define vocabularies and grammars.Several research systems, including ours, take a different approach: we feed the computer with billions of words...
Thursday, 27 April 2006
Posted by Allen Hutchison, Engineering ManagerAutomated testing is one of my passions: it has hard problems to be solved, and they get harder every day. Over the past few years, I've had the opportunity to work on several automation projects, and now I'm getting a chance to combine my passion for automation with my love for the city of London.I'm happy to announce that Google will be hosting a Conference on Test Automation in our London office on September 7 and 8, 2006. Our goal is to create a collegial atmosphere where participants can discuss...
Sunday, 23 April 2006
Posted by Rick Boardman, User Experience ResearcherThe raison d’etre for our user experience research team is driven by Google's keen interest in focusing on the user. So we help many product teams provide the best possible experience to everyone around the world, primarily by inviting thousands of people to take part in usability tests in our labs, and by analyzing our logs to identify problems which need fixing. From this we get the data we help our engineers make Google products as easy as possible to use for the millions of people out there...
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Posted by Sumit Agarwal, Maryam Kamvar, & Michael Stoppelman With 4 seconds left to go, the Team Cheesy Poofs robot shouldered its way onto the 3 foot platform, pivoted 90 degrees into scoring position, and rapid-fired 10 balls directly into the 3-point goal. They won the match, and the Google Silicon Valley Regional Championship for US FIRST, a non-profit "For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" (FIRST).Google jumped...
Saturday, 11 March 2006
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchYou know the Google story: small start-up of highly-skilled programmers in a garage grows into a large international company. But how do you maintain the skill level while roughly doubling in size each year? We rely on the Lake Wobegon Strategy, which says only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees. An alternative strategy (popular in the dot-com boom period) is to justify...
Tuesday, 7 March 2006
Posted by Neil Daswani & Ravi Jain, Google; and Saikat Guha, Cornell UniversityVoIP (Voice-over-IP) systems are one of the fastest growing means of communication on the Internet, enabling free or low-cost phone calls. But to date, researchers have had little data to work with to learn how to build VoIP systems better. Some of these systems are proprietary, and obtaining data about their operational characteristics has been particularly challenging. For instance, even though the Skype network has tens of millions of users, it has been hard...
Saturday, 4 March 2006
Posted by Corinna Cortes, Head, Google Research NY Google Research is about teamwork with outstanding engineers to solve novel and challenging problems that have an impact. But it's also about being at the forefront of scientific innovations. We're an active part of the research community, and we like to interact with researchers and scientists in academia. We're happy to serve as a hub for researchers to come and discuss their latest findings and get exposed to the large-scale problems and challenges that we face. Robert Tarjan, John Lafferty,...
Friday, 17 February 2006
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchWe've been asked what Google Research is like, and we thought the best way to answer is with a blog. First let me say that we're not like the stereotype of a Research Lab: the place where you hide all the Ph.D.s to keep them away from the engineers who do the real work.We're different for two reasons.First, Google Engineering is different: it contains many world class Ph.D. researchers. For example, the top download from the ACM digital library last month was The Google File System, written by Google...
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