Posted by Jakob Uszkoreit, Ingeniarius ProgrammandiUt munimenta linguarum convellamus et scientiam mundi patentem utilemque faciamus, instrumenta convertendi multarum nationum linguas creavimus. Hodie nuntiamus primum instrumentum convertendi linguam qua nulli nativi nunc utuntur: Latinam. Cum pauci cotidie Latine loquantur, quotannis amplius centum milia discipuli Americani Domesticam Latinam Probationem suscipiunt. Praeterea plures ex omnibus mundi populis Latinae student. Hoc instrumentum convertendi Latinam rare usurum ut convertat nuntios...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Friday, 17 September 2010
Posted by Ciprian Chelba, Research TeamIt is with great sadness that we note the passing of Fred Jelinek, teacher and colleague to many of us here at Google. His seminal contributions to statistical modeling of speech and language influenced not only us, but many more members of the research community.Several of us at Google remember Fred:Ciprian Chelba:Fred was my thesis advisor at CLSP. My ten years of work in the field after graduation led me to increasingly appreciate the values that Fred instilled by personal example: work on the hard problem...
Posted by Anne Aula, Rehan Khan, and Zhiwei Guan, User Experience TeamHow does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?At Google, we strive to make finding information easy, efficient, and even fun. However, we know that once in a while, finding a specific piece of information turns out to be tricky. Based on dozens of user studies over the years, we know that it’s relatively easy for an observer to notice that the user is having...
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Posted by Hendrik Mueller, User Experience ResearcherWhen I relocated to New York City a few years ago, some of the most important health information for me to have on hand was my immunization history. At the time, though, my health records were scattered, and it felt like a daunting task to organize them -- a not-uncommon problem that many people face. For me, the solution came when Google Health became available in May of 2008, and I started using...
Monday, 13 September 2010
Posted by Matthias Grundmann and Vivek Kwatra, Google ResearchVideos come in different sizes, resolutions and aspect ratios, but the device used for playback, may it be your TV, mobile phone, or laptop, only has a fixed resolution and form factor. As a result, you cannot watch your favorite old show that came in 4:3 on your new 16:9 HDTV without having black bars on the side, referred to as letterboxing. Likewise, widescreen movies and user-videos...
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Posted by Johan Schalkwyk, Google ResearchWind the clock back two years with your smart phone in hand. Try to recall doing a search for a restaurant or the latest scores of your favorite sports team. If you’re like me you probably won’t even bother, or you’ll suffer with tiny keys or fat fingers on a touch screen. With Google Search by Voice all that has changed. Now you just tap the microphone, speak, and within seconds you see the result. No more fat fingers.Google Search by Voice is a result of many years of investment in speech at Google. We...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Posted by Dennis Abts, Michael R. Marty, Philip M. Wells, Peter Klausler, and Hong LiuThis is part of the series highlighting some notable publications by Googlers. At Google, we operate large datacenters containing clusters of servers, networking switches, and more. While this gear costs a lot of money, an increasingly important cost -- both in terms of dollars and environmental impact -- is the electricity that drives the computing clusters and the cooling infrastructure. Since our clusters often do not run at full utilization, Google recently...
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