Posted by Aimin Zhu, China University RelationsWe’re excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Tsinghua University to provide educational support to five major universities in Western China: Qinghai, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Ningxia, and Yunnan. Together, we aim to:Support faculty development by recognizing outstanding teachers, sponsoring published papers, and funding academic exchange and cooperation with other universitiesEstablish specialized curricula by creating new courses focused on advanced industrial and web technologiesCultivate student...
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Posted by Dan Belov, Principal Engineer and David Konerding, Software EngineerWe’re pleased to announce a new academic research grant program: Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty. Through this program, we’ll award up to 10 qualified researchers with at least 100 million core-hours each, for a total of 1 billion core-hours. The program is focused on large-scale, CPU-bound batch computations in research areas such as biomedicine, energy, finance, entertainment, and agriculture, amongst others. For example, projects developing large-scale genomic...
Monday, 4 April 2011
Posted by Deirdre O'Brien and Diane Tang, Adwords TeamAt Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-visible changes such as modifications to a user interface, but also more subtle changes such as different machine learning algorithms that might affect ranking or content selection. Our insatiable appetite for experimentation has led us to tackle the problems of how to run more experiments, how to run experiments that...
Friday, 1 April 2011
Posted by Martin Jansche and Alex Salcianu, Google Speech TeamAs you might know, Google Voice Search is available in more than two dozen languages and dialects, making it easy to perform Google searches just by speaking into your phone.Today it is our pleasure to announce the launch of Pig Latin Voice Search!What is Pig Latin you may ask? Wikipedia describes it as a language game where, for each English word, the first consonant (or consonant cluster)...
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