Posted by Benjamin Yolken, Google Public Data Product ManagerA year ago, we introduced the Google Public Data Explorer, a tool that allows users to interactively explore public-interest datasets from a variety of influential sources like the World Bank, IMF, Eurostat, and the US Census Bureau. Today, users can visualize over 300 metrics across 31 datasets, including everything from labor productivity (OECD) to Internet speed (Ookla) to gender balance in parliaments (UNECE) to government debt levels (IMF) to population density by municipality (Statistics...
Monday, 28 February 2011
Friday, 25 February 2011
Where does my data live?
Posted on 14:45 by Unknown
Posted by Daniel Ford, Senior MathematicianHave you ever wondered what happens when you upload a photo to Picasa, or where all your Gmail or YouTube videos are stored? How it is that you can read or watch them from anywhere at any time?If you stored your data on a single hard disk, like the one in your personal computer, then the disk would eventually fail and your data would be lost forever. If you want to protect your data from the possibility of such a failure, you can store copies across many different disks so that if any one fails then you...
A Runtime Solution for Online Contention Detection and Response
Posted on 07:45 by Unknown
Posted by Jason Mars, Software Engineering InternIn our recent paper, Contention Aware Execution: Online Contention Detection and Response, we have made a big step forward in addressing an important and pressing problem in the field of Computer Science today. This work appears in the 2010 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) and was awarded the CGO 2010 Best Presentation Award at the conference.One of the greatest challenges when using multicore processors arise when critical resources, such as the...
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Congratulations to Ken Thompson
Posted on 15:00 by Unknown
Posted by Bill Coughran, Senior Vice President of EngineeringI’m happy to share that Ken Thompson has been chosen as the recipient of the prestigious Japan Prize. The Japan Prize is bestowed for achievements in science and technology that promote the peace and prosperity of mankind. Ken was awarded the prize along with Dennis Ritchie for their development of the UNIX operating system in 1969 while at Bell Labs. UNIX changed the direction of computing as a whole and paved the way for the development of the personal computers and the server systems...
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Query Language Modeling for Voice Search
Posted on 14:15 by Unknown
Posted by Ciprian Chelba, Research ScientistAbout three years ago we set a goal to enable speaking to the Google Search engine on smart-phones. On the language modeling side, the motivation was that we had access to large amounts of typed text data from our users. At the same time, that meant that the users also had a clear expectation for how they would interact with a speech-enabled version of the Google Search application. The challenge lay in the scale of the problem and the perceived sparsity of the query data. Our paper, Query Language Modeling...
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