Posted by Corinna Cortes and Alfred Spector, Google ResearchWe often get asked if Google scientists and engineers publish technical papers, and the answer is, “Most certainly, yes.” Indeed, we have a formidable research capability, and we encourage publications as well as other forms of technical dissemination--including our contributions to open source and standards and the introduction of new APIs and tools, which have proven to sometimes be foundational.Needless to say, with our great commitment to technical excellence in computer science...
Friday, 30 July 2010
Google North American Faculty Summit - Day 1
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Posted by Úlfar Erlingsson, Manager, Security ResearchThursday, July 29 was the first day of the Google North American Faculty Summit, our sixth annual event bringing together Google engineers and subject matter experts with leading computer science faculty, mostly from North America but some from as far away as Japan and China. This year’s summit is focused on three topics: cloud computing, security and privacy, and social networking. It was these first two areas that we discussed yesterday, in a series of talks by Googlers, informal meetings...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
And the award goes to...
Posted on 18:28 by Unknown
Posted by Fernando Pereira, Research DirectorGoogle's very own Tushar Chandra along with his coauthors, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg, received the prestigious Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing conference in Zürich. This award is given for outstanding papers that have had great impact on the theory and practice of distributed computing for over a decade.Their papers introduced and precisely characterized the notion of unreliable failure detection in a distributed system:Tushar...
Googlers receive multiple awards at the 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning
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Posted by Fernando Pereira, Research DirectorGooglers were recognized in three of the four paper awards at ICML 2010: Sajid Siddiqi was co-recipient of the best paper award for Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov Models with Le Song, Byron Boots, Geoff Gordon, and Alex Smola John Duchi, who is also a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was co-recipient of the best student paper award for On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms with Lester Mackey and Michael JordanAnd last but not the least, Yoram Singer was co-recipient of the best 10-year...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Announcing our Q2 Research Awards
Posted on 09:23 by Unknown
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University RelationsWe’re excited to announce the latest round of Google Research Awards, our program which identifies and supports full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. From a record number of submissions, we are funding 75 awards across 18 different areas—a total of more than $4 million.The areas that received the highest level of funding for this round were systems and infrastructure, human computer interaction, multimedia and security. We also continue to develop...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Google PhD Fellowships go international
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Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)We introduced the Google Fellowship program last year in the United States to broaden our support of university research. The students who were awarded the 2009 fellowships were a truly impressive group, many having high profile internships this past summer and even a few with faculty appointments in the upcoming year.Universities continue to be the source of some of the most innovative research in computer science, and in particular it’s...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Our commitment to the digital humanities
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Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains scholia written fifteen centuries earlier about texts written five centuries before that. Almost since computers were invented, people have envisioned using them to expose the interconnections of the world’s knowledge. That vision is finally...
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