Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, Research Scientist, Google Research New YorkGoogle regularly participates in the WINE conference: Workshop on Internet & Network Economics. WINE’12 just happened last week in Liverpool, UK, where there is a strong economics and computation group. WINE provides a forum for researchers across various disciplines to examine interesting algorithmic and economic problems of mutual interest that have emerged from the Internet over the past decade. For Google, the exchange of ideas at this selective workshop has resulted...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Posted by Francisco Ruiz Anton, Policy Manager, Google Spain Cross-posted with the Policy by the Numbers BlogAt the end of the third quarter in 2012, roughly 25% of adults in Spain were out of work. More than half of adults under 24 years old are unemployed. Recent graduates and young adults preparing to enter the workforce face the toughest job market in decades.The Internet presents an opportunity for growth and economic development. According to recent research, more than 100,000 jobs in Spain originate from the Internet and it directly...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Posted by Andrea Held, Program Manager, University RelationsIn 2011 Google University Relations launched a new academic research awards program, Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty, offering up to one billion core-hours to qualifying proposals. We were looking for projects that would consume 100M+ core-hours each and be of critical benefit to society. Not surprisingly, there was no shortage of applications. Since then, the following seven scientists have been working on-site at Google offices in Mountain View and Seattle. They are here to run...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Erin Mindell, Program Manager, Google Education Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) began five years ago with a simple question: How can we help create a much needed influx of CS majors into universities and the workforce? We took our questions to three of our university partners--University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and UCLA--and together we came up with CS4HS. The model was based on a “train the trainer” technique. By focusing our efforts on teachers and bringing them the skills they need to implement CS into their classrooms, we would...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
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Posted by Ciprian Chelba, Research ScientistAt Google, we’re able to use the large amounts of data made available by the Web’s fast growth. Two such data sources are the anonymized queries on google.com and the web itself. They help improve automatic speech recognition through large language models: Voice Search makes use of the former, whereas YouTube speech transcription benefits significantly from the latter. The language model is the component...
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering ManagerSince launching the Google Books Ngram Viewer, we’ve been overjoyed by the public reception. Co-creator Will Brockman and I hoped that the ability to track the usage of phrases across time would be of interest to professional linguists, historians, and bibliophiles. What we didn’t expect was its popularity among casual users. Since the launch in 2010, the Ngram Viewer has been used about 50 times every minute...
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Posted by Dan Bikel and Keith Hall, Research Scientists at GoogleWe are pleased to announce the release of an open source, general-purpose framework designed for reranking problems, ReFr (Reranker Framework), now available at: http://code.google.com/p/refr/. Many types of systems capable of processing speech and human language text produce multiple hypothesized outputs for a given input, each with a score. In the case of machine translation systems, these hypotheses correspond to possible translations from some sentence in a source language to...
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Michel Benard, University Relations ManagerLast week we held our fifth Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Faculty Summit in London, bringing together 94 of EMEA’s foremost computer science academics from 65 universities representing 25 countries, together with more than 60 Googlers. This year’s jam-packed agenda included a welcome reception at the Science Museum (plus a tour of the special exhibition: “Codebreaker - Alan Turing’s life and legacy”), a keynote on “Research at Google” by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives...
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Posted by Jon Vaver, Research Scientist and Lizzy Van Alstine, Marketing ManagerAdvertisers have a fundamental need to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. In a previous paper, we described the application of geo experiments to measuring the impact of advertising on consumer behavior (e.g. clicks, conversions, downloads). This method involves randomly assigning experimental units to control and test conditions and measuring the subsequent impact on consumer behavior. It is a practical way of incorporating the gold standard...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Posted by Dan Russell, Uber Tech Lead, Search Quality & User HappinessIf you missed Power Searching with Google a few months ago or were unable to complete the course the first time around, now’s your chance to sign up again for our free online course that aims to empower our users with the tools and knowledge to find what they’re looking for more quickly and easily. The community-based course features six 50-minute classes along with interactive activities and the opportunity to hear from search experts and Googlers about how search works....
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director of ResearchIn July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google technologies can help bring education to a global audience. So we packaged up the technology we used to build Power Searching and are providing it as an open source project...
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Posted by Javier Bargas-Avila, Senior User Experience Researcher at YouTube UX Research I’m sure you’ve experienced this at some point: You click on a link to a website, and after a quick glance you already know you’re not interested, so you click ‘back’ and head elsewhere. How did you make that snap judgment? Did you really read and process enough information to know that this website wasn’t what you were looking for? Or was it something more immediate?...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Posted by Kevin Murphy, Research ScientistThe conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier venues for research related to probabilistic models and reasoning under uncertainty. This year's conference (the 28th) set several new records: the largest number of submissions (304 papers, last year 285), the largest number of participants (216, last year 191), the largest number of tutorials (4, last year 3), and the largest number of workshops (4, last year 1). We interpret this as a sign that the conference is growing,...
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Posted By Johnny Chen, Product Manager, Google ResearchThe Web offers a trove of structured data in the form of tables. Organizing this collection of information and helping users find the most useful tables is a key mission of Table Search from Google Research. While we are still a long way away from the perfect table search, we made a few steps forward recently by revamping how we determine which tables are "good" (one that contains meaningful...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Posted by Afshin Rostamizadeh, Google ResearchOur machine learning book, The Foundations of Machine Learning, is now published! The book, with authors from both Google Research and academia, covers a large variety of fundamental machine learning topics in depth, including the theoretical basis of many learning algorithms and key aspects of their applications. The material presented takes its origin in a machine learning graduate course, "Foundations...
Monday, 20 August 2012
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director of ResearchOn July 26th, Google's 2012 Faculty Summit hosted computer science professors from around the world for a chance to talk and hear about some of the work done by Google and by our faculty partners. One of the sessions was a panel on Online Education. Daphne Koller's presentation on "Education at Scale" describes how a talk about YouTube at the 2009 Google Faculty Summit was an early inspiration for her, as she was formulating her approach that led to the founding of Coursera. Koller started with the...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering ManagerCross-posted with the US Public Policy Blog, the European Public Policy Blog, and Inside Search BlogAt Google, we're constantly trying to make important collections of information more useful to the world. Since 2006, we’ve let people discover, search, and read United States patents online. Starting this week, you can do the same for the millions of ideas that have been submitted to the European Patent...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsFor two weeks in July, we ran Power Searching with Google, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) similar to those pioneered by Stanford and MIT. We blended this format with our social and communication tools to create a community learning experience around search. The course covered tips and tricks for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator, or color filtering to find images. The course had interactive activities to practice new skills and reinforce learning,...
Monday, 6 August 2012
Posted by Vincent Vanhoucke, Research Scientist, Speech TeamThe New York Times recently published an article about Google’s large scale deep learning project, which learns to discover patterns in large datasets, including... cats on YouTube! What’s the point of building a gigantic cat detector you might ask? When you combine large amounts of data, large-scale distributed computing and powerful machine learning algorithms, you can apply the technology...
Thursday, 2 August 2012
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special InitiativesLast week, we held our eighth annual North America Computer Science Faculty Summit at our headquarters in Mountain View. Over 100 leading faculty joined us from 65 universities located in North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America to attend the two-day Summit, which focused on new interactions in our increasingly digital world. In my introductory remarks, I shared some themes that are shaping our research agenda. The first relates to the amazing scale of systems we...
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Posted by Jakob Uszkoreit, Software EngineerOn July 26 and 27, we held our eighth annual Computer Science Faculty Summit on our Mountain View Campus. During the event, we brought you a series of blog posts dedicated to sharing the Summit's talks, panels and sessions, and we continue with this glimpse into natural language in voice search. --EdAt this year’s Faculty Summit, I had the opportunity to showcase the newest version of Google Voice Search. This version hints at how Google Search, in particular on mobile devices and by voice, will...
Friday, 27 July 2012
Posted by Jeff Walz, Head of University RelationsYesterday afternoon at the 2012 Computer Science Faculty Summit, there was a round of lightning talks addressing some of the research problems faced by Google across several domains. The talks pointed out some of the biggest challenges emerging from increasing digital interaction, which is this year’s Faculty Summit theme. Research Scientist Vivek Kwatra kicked things off with a talk about video stabilization on YouTube. The popularity of mobile devices with cameras has led to an explosion in the...
Posted by Andrea Held, University RelationsIn the last 10 years, we’ve seen a major transition from stand-alone applications that run on desktop computers to applications running in the cloud. Unfortunately, many computer science students don’t have the opportunity to learn and work in the cloud due to a lack of resources in traditional undergrad programs. Without this access students are limited to the resources their school can provide. So today, we’re announcing a new award program: the Google App Engine Education Awards. We are excited because...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsGoogle’s Eighth Annual Computer Science Faculty Summit opened today in Mountain View with a fascinating talk by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, leaders of the data visualization group at our Cambridge office. They provided insight into their design process in visualizing big data, by highlighting Google+ Ripples and a map of the wind they created. To preface his explanation...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Posted by Chris Reid, Sydney Staffing teamI recently sat down with Ben Appleton, a Senior Staff Software Engineer, to talk about his recent move from Software Engineer (SWE) on the Maps team to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). In the interview, Ben explains why he transitioned from a pure development role to a role in production, and how his work has changed:Chris: Tell us about your path to Google. Ben: Before I joined Google I didn’t consider myself a “software engineer”. I went to the University of Queensland and graduated with a Bachelor’s...
Friday, 13 July 2012
Posted by Anish Das Sarma, Research Scientist and Jeff Shute, Software EngineerOver the years, SIGMOD has expanded beyond a traditional "database" conference to include several areas related to information management. This year’s ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference (on Management of Data, and Principles of Database Systems), held in Scottsdale, Arizona was no different. We were impressed by the wide variety of researchers from industry and academia alike the conference attracted, and enjoyed learning how others are pushing the limits of scalability in data...
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