Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchAccess to massive computing resources is foundational to Research and Development. Fifteen awardees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cluster Exploratory Service (CLuE) program have been applying large scale computational resources donated by Google and IBM. Overall, 1,328 researchers have used the cluster to perform over 120 million computing tasks on the cluster and in the process, have published 49 scientific publications, educated thousands of students on parallel computing and supported numerous...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Friday, 9 December 2011
Measuring Ad Effectiveness Using Geo Experiments
Posted on 08:48 by Unknown
Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine and Jon Vaver, Quantitative Analysis TeamAdvertisers want to be able to measure the effectiveness of their advertising. Many methods have been used to address this need, but the most rigorous and trusted of these are randomized experiments, which involve randomly assigning experimental units to control and test conditions. At Google, we have found that randomized geo experiments are a powerful approach to measuring the effectiveness of advertising.Many advertising platforms allow advertising to be targeted by geographical...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
ACM Fellows for 2011
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Posted by Alfred Spector, Google ResearchCross-posted with the Official Google BlogCongratulations to three Googlers elected ACM FellowsIt gives me great pleasure to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that three Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in 2011. The ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, and the Fellows Program celebrates the exceptional contributions of leaders in the computing field. This year the society has selected Amit Singhal, Peter S. Magnusson and Amin...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Our second round of Google Research Awards for 2011
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Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University RelationsWe’ve just finished the review process for the latest round of the Google Research Awards, which provide funding to full-time faculty working on research in areas of mutual interest with Google. We are delighted to be funding 119 awards across 21 different focus areas for a total of $6 million. The subject areas that received the highest level of support this time were systems and infrastructure, human-computer interaction, social and mobile. In addition, 24% of the funding...
Friday, 2 December 2011
2011 Google China Faculty Summit in Hangzhou
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Posted by Aimin Zhu, University Relationship Manager, Google ChinaWe just wrapped up a highly successful 2011 Google China Faculty Summit in Hangzhou, China. On November 17 and 18, Googlers from China and the U.S. gathered with more than 80 faculty members representing more than 45 universities and institutes, including Tsinghua University, Peking University and The Chinese Academy of Sciences. The two-day event revolved around the theme of “Communication, Exploration and Expansion,” with day one covering research and day two focusing on academic...
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