Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, Google University RelationsAs you may have read, today we announced the recipients of the 2009 Google Fellowships. (You can read the announcement over on the Official Google Blog.) This is fantastic news, and the blog post makes the Google Fellowship Program sound very polished. But the truth is there was a lot more work (and scrambling) done in the background...here's a quick snapshot.We first conceived of the idea of the fellowships late last year. Google already funds academic research through the Google Research...
Friday, 15 May 2009
Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, Google University Relations[Also posted on the Official Google Blog]I can't think of a better environment than academia for asking hard questions and trying to solve the unsolvable. It's at universities that graduate students perform some of the most exciting and game-changing research in computer science and technology. These university labs foster the students that are going to be the next innovators and leaders in research.We started the Google Fellowship Program this year to support graduate students in their quest...
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Posted by Jay Yagnik, Head of Computer Vision ResearchAt Google Research we interact with the academic research community closely through various programs like Research Awards, Visiting Faculty Program, and by active participation in various conferences. Dealing with large quantities of data gives us some unique challenges and perspectives on various problems. In many cases entirely new problem classes begin to emerge. These problems often have not received attention from a broad part of the research community. In an effort to bridge this gap for...
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Posted by Maryam Kamvar, Melanie Kellar, Rajan Patel and Ya Xu, Google ResearchHistorically, research suggests that web search on mobile phones has been limited when compared to the diverse set of queries which comprise computer-based search. Researchers attribute the homogeneous mobile search behavior in part to the phone's form factor and browsing capabilities. However, our new logs-based study indicates that high-end phones, like the iPhone,...
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