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...
Friday, 31 July 2009
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Predicting Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits
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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
ACM EC Conference and Workshop on Ad Auctions
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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
Google's Research Awards Program Update
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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
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) in Montreal
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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...
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