Posted by Marianna Dizik, StatisticianThe Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) were held in Miami, Florida, this year. Nearly 5,000 participants from academia and industry came to present and discuss the latest in statistical research, methodology, and applications. Similar to previous years, several Googlers shared expertise in large-scale experimental design and implementation, statistical inference with massive datasets and forecasting, data mining, parallel computing, and much more.Our session "Statistics: The Secret Weapon of Successful Web Giants"...
Monday, 22 August 2011
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Posted by Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MITMIT and Google have a long-standing relationship based on mutual interests in education and technology. Today, we took another step forward in our shared goals with the establishment of the MIT Center for Mobile Learning, which will strive to transform learning and education through innovation in mobile computing. The new center will be actively engaged in studying and extending App Inventor for Android, which Google recently announced it will be open sourcing.The new center,...
Friday, 12 August 2011
Posted by Nina Kim Schultz, Google Education ResearchCross-posted with the Official Google BlogSchool may still be out for summer, but teachers remain hard at work. This week, we hosted Google’s inaugural Faculty Institute at our Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. The three-day event was created for esteemed faculty from schools of education and math and science to explore teaching paradigms that leverage technology in K-12 classrooms. Selected...
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Posted by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, Visiting Faculty at GoogleFour years ago, we set out to create a research engine that would help people explore our cultural history by statistically analyzing the world’s books. In January 2011, the resulting method, culturomics, was featured on the cover of the journal Science. More importantly, Google implemented and launched a web-based version of our prototype research engine, the Google...
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