Posted by Alon Halevy, Senior Staff Research Scientist Cross-posted with the Public Sector and Elections Lab BlogOne of the things I most enjoy about working on data management is the ability to work on a variety of problems, both in the private sector and in government. I recently had the privilege of serving on a working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) studying the challenges of conserving the nation’s ecosystems. The report, titled “Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and the Economy”...
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Posted by David Chan and Lizzy Van Alstine, Quantitative Management TeamAdvertisers often wonder whether search ads cannibalize their organic traffic. In other words, if search ads were paused, would clicks on organic results increase, and make up for the loss in paid traffic? Google statisticians recently ran over 400 studies on paused accounts to answer this question.In what we call “Search Ads Pause Studies”, our group of researchers observed organic click volume in the absence of search ads. Then they built a statistical model to predict the...
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Last week, we held our seventh annual Computer Science Faculty Summit. For the first time, the event took place at our New York City office; nearly 100 faculty members from universities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America attended. The two-day Summit focused on systems, artificial intelligence and mobile computing. Alfred Spector, VP of research and special initiatives, hosted the conference and led lively discussions on...
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President, Research Last week, we held our seventh annual Americas Computer Science Faculty Summit at our New York City office. About 100 faculty members from universities in the Western Hemisphere attended the two-day Summit, which focused on systems, artificial intelligence and mobile. To finish up our series of Summit recaps, I asked four faculty members to provide us their perspective on the summit, thinking their views would complement our own blog: Jeannette Wing from Carnegie Mellon, Rebecca Wright from Rutgers,...
Monday, 18 July 2011
Posted by Andrew W. Moore, Director, Google Commerce and Site Director, Pittsburgh On July 14 and 15, we held our seventh annual Faculty Summit for the Americas with our New York City offices hosting for the first time. Over the next few days, we will be bringing you a series of blog posts dedicated to sharing the Summit's events, topics and speakers. --EdGoogle is ramping up its commitment to making shopping and commerce fun, convenient and useful. As a computer scientist with a background in algorithms and large scale artificial intelligence,...
Friday, 15 July 2011
Posted by John Wilkes, Principal Software Engineer On July 14 and 15, we held our seventh annual Faculty Summit for the Americas with our New York City offices hosting for the first time. Over the next few days, we will be bringing you a series of blog posts dedicated to sharing the Summit's events, topics and speakers. --EdAt this year’s Faculty Summit, I had the opportunity to provide a glimpse into the world of cluster management at Google. My goal was to brief the audience on the challenges of this complex system and explain a few of the research...
Posted by Johan Schalkwyk, Software Engineer On July 14 and 15, we held our seventh annual Faculty Summit for the Americas with our New York City offices hosting for the first time. Over the next few days, we will be bringing you a series of blog posts dedicated to sharing the Summit's events, topics and speakers. --EdGoogle’s mobile speech team has a lofty goal: recognize any search query spoken in English and return the relevant results. Regardless of whether your accent skews toward a Southern drawl, a Boston twang, or anything in between,...
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist We constantly move from one device to another while carrying out everyday tasks. For example, we might find an interesting article on a desktop computer at work, then bring the article with us on a mobile phone during the commute and keep reading it on a laptop or a TV when we get home. Cloud computing and web applications have made it possible to access the same data and applications on different devices and platforms. However, there are not many ways to easily move tasks across devices that are as intuitive...
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Posted by Daniel Ford and Josh BatsonThe web is vast and infinite. Its pages link together in a complex network, containing remarkable structures and patterns. Some of the clearest patterns relate to language.Most web pages link to other pages on the same web site, and the few off-site links they have are almost always to other pages in the same language. It's as if each language has its own web which is loosely linked to the webs of other languages. However,...
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