Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations and Jeff Walz, Head of University RelationsWe do a significant amount of in-house research at Google, but we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions globally, pursuing innovative research in core areas relevant to our mission. One way in which we support academic institutions is the Google Research Awards program, aimed at identifying and supporting world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest.Our University Relations team and...
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Posted by Mike Schuster, Google Research and Kaisuke Nakajima, Google JapanOn December 7th, we launched our new Japanese voice search system (音声検索), which has been available for various flavors of English since last year and for Mandarin Chinese for the past two months. The initial Japanese system works on the Android platform and also through the Google Mobile App on the iPhone as announced in a Japanese blog and a general explanation on how to get started. For developers who want to make use of the speech recognition backend for their own Android...
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Posted by Michele Covell, Vision Research TeamRecently, Google's research groups reviewed over 140 grant proposals across sixteen different research areas. During this process, we identified a number of strategic research topics. These topics represent critical areas of research for Google in collaboration with our university partners.We'll be examining several of these topics in future posts but we'd like to begin by raising some of the research challenges we face in our multimedia endeavors:Large scale annotation: How can we learn from large,...
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Posted by Hartmut Neven, Technical Lead Manager Image RecognitionMany Google services we offer depend on sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning or pattern recognition. If one takes a closer look at such capabilities one realizes that they often require the solution of what mathematicians call hard combinatorial optimization problems. It turns out that solving the hardest of such problems requires server farms...
Monday, 7 December 2009
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP Research and Special Initiatives and Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations[cross-posted with the Official Google Blog]Today kicks off the nation’s first Computer Science Education Week. The goal of this week is to encourage students to learn about the discipline that powers the computers, applications and technology they use everyday. Computer Science Education Week emphasizes that our society's aspirations will be met by individuals who have an increasingly deep understanding of computer technology.We've...
Posted by Hanah Kim, University Programs[cross-posted with the Google Student Blog]As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, we are pleased to host the first annual 2010 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum. This forum will bring together students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with Google.Up to 75 computer scientists will be invited to an all-expenses paid forum...
Friday, 4 December 2009
Posted by Christopher Alberti and Michiel Bacchiani, Google ResearchOn November 19, we launched our new automatic captioning and automatic alignment feature for YouTube. These features significantly reduce the effort it takes to create captions for videos on YouTube.With YouTube expanding its index at a breakneck speed of about 20 hours of new material uploaded each minute, access to this vast body of video material becomes increasingly challenging. This is particularly true for people with hearing disabilities. A 2005 US census showed that 7.8...
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchI'm excited to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has just announced that four Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in its class of 2009. Jeff Dean, Tom Dean, Urs Hoelzle and Yossi Matias were chosen for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. Here at Google, we take great pride in having a tremendously talented workforce, and the talent of our team is exemplified by the addition of Jeff, Tom,...
Monday, 23 November 2009
Posted by Yushi Jing and Henry Rowley, Google ResearchEarlier this week, we announced the Labs launch of Google Image Swirl, an experimental search tool that organizes image-search results. We hope to take this opportunity to explain some of the research underlying this feature, and why it is an important area of focus for computer vision research at Google.As the Web becomes more "visual," it is important for Google to go beyond traditional text...
Friday, 13 November 2009
Posted by Jon Feldman and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NYThe 50th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) was held a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. This conference (along with STOC and SODA) is one of the the major venues for recent advances in algorithm design and computational complexity. Computation is now a major ingredient of almost any field of science, without which many of the recent achievements would not have happened (e.g., Human Genome decoding). As the 50th anniversary of FOCS, this event was a landmark in the...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Posted by Mike Belshe, Software Engineer and Roberto Peon, Software EngineerCross-posted with the Chromium Blog.Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster. SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression. We started working on SPDY...
Monday, 2 November 2009
Posted by Pedro J. Moreno, Research ScientistGoogle Search by Voice was released more than one year ago as a feature of Google Mobile App, our downloadable application for smartphones. Its performance has been improving consistently and it now understands not only US English, but also UK, Australian, and Indian-English accents. However, this is far from Google's goal to find information and make it easily accessible in any language.So, almost one...
Monday, 31 August 2009
Posted by Franz Och, Principal ScientistAre you using Google Translate to access the world's information? It can help you find and translate local restaurant and hotel reviews into your language when planning a vacation abroad, allow you to read the Spanish or French Editions of Google News, communicate with people who speak different languages using Google Translate chat bots, and more. We're constantly working to improve translation quality, so if you haven't tried it recently, you may be pleasantly surprised with what it can do now.We're especially...
Monday, 17 August 2009
Posted by Yossi Matias, Niv Efron, and Yair Shimshoni, Google Labs, Israel.Since launching Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, we've been providing daily insight into what the world is searching for. An understanding of search trends can be useful for advertisers, marketers, economists, scholars, and anyone else interested in knowing more about their world and what's currently top-of-mind.As many have observed, the trends of some search queries are quite seasonal and have repeated patterns. See, for instance, the search trends for the...
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Posted by Bill Magnuson, Hal Abelson, and Mark FriedmanWe recently announced our App Inventor for Android project on the Google Research Blog. That blog entry was long on vision but short on technological details--details which we think would be of interest to our readers.Of particular interest is our use of Scheme. Part of our development environment is a visual programming language similar to Scratch. The visual language provides a drag-and-drop interface for assembling procedures and event handlers that manipulate high-level components of...
Monday, 3 August 2009
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives[cross-posted with the Official Google Blog]We held our fifth Computer Science Faculty Summit at our Mountain View campus last week. About 100 faculty attendees from schools in the Western hemisphere attended the summit, which focused on a collection of technologies that serve to connect and empower people. Included in the agenda were presentations on technologies for automated translation of human language, voice recognition, responding to crises, power monitoring and...
Friday, 31 July 2009
Posted by Hal Abelson, Visiting FacultyAt Google Research, we are making it easy to build mobile applications, and we're collaborating with faculty from a dozen colleges and universities to explore whether this could change the nature of introductory computing. With the support of Google University Relations, the faculty group will work together this fall to pilot courses where beginning students, including non-computer science majors, create Android applications that incorporate social networking, location awareness, and Web-based data collections.Mobile...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist and Hyunyoung Choi, Sr. EconomistOne of the strongest leading indicators of economic activity is the number of people who file for unemployment benefits. Macroeconomists Robert Gordon and James Hamilton have recently examined the historical evidence. According to Hamilton's summary: "...in each of the last six recessions, the recovery began within 8 weeks of the peak in new unemployment claims."In an earlier blog post, we suggested that Google Trends/Search Insights data could be useful in short term predictions...
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
By Jon Feldman and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NYThis month, the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 2009) and the 5th Workshop on Ad Auctions took place at Stanford University. This is one of the major forums for economists and computer scientists to share their ideas about mechanism design and algorithmic game theory. Other than co-authoring several papers in the conference and workshops, Google contributed significantly in presenting tutorials.Among the four tutorials given at the ACM EC conference, we participated in presenting...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Posted by Posted by Juan E. Vargas, University RelationsWhen we think about innovation, it is easy to forget that it took about 55 years to spread automobile usage to 1/4 of the US population, ... 35 years for the telephone, ... 20 years for the radio, ... 15 years for the PC, ... 10 years for the cell phone, ... 7 years for the Internet (Council of Competiveness, Innovate America, 2004). Recognizing that innovation holds the key to many of the unique technical challenges we face, we remain committed to maintaining strong relations with the academic...
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Posted by Eyal Even Dar and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NYThe 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) was recently held in Montreal in conjunction with the 22nd Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 2009) and the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2009). This is one of the major forums for researchers from both industry and academia to share the recent developments in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Machine learning is a central area for Google as it has many applications...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Posted by Jake Brutlag, Web Search InfrastructureAt Google, we've gathered hard data to reinforce our intuition that "speed matters" on the Internet. Google runs experiments on the search results page to understand and improve the search experience. Recently, we conducted some experiments to determine how users react when web search takes longer. We've always viewed speed as a competitive advantage, so this research is important to understand the trade-off between speed and other features we might introduce. We wanted to share this information...
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