Posted by Warren Shen, Fusion Tables teamWe are very pleased to announce the public availability of the new Fusion Tables API. The new API includes all of the functionality of the existing SQL API, plus the ability to read and modify table and column metadata as well as the definitions of styles and templates for data visualization. This API is also integrated with the Google APIs console which lets developers manage all their Google APIs in one place and take advantage of built-in reporting and authentication features. With this launch, we are...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Posted by Terry Ednacot, Education Program ManagerCross-posted with the Official Google BlogYou may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Today, we’ve opened registration for Power Searching with Google, a free, online, community-based course showcasing these techniques and how you can use...
Friday, 15 June 2012
Posted by Nitish Korula and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, New YorkThere are fascinating algorithmic and game theoretic challenges in designing both Google’s internal systems and our core products facing hundreds of millions of users. For example, both Google AdWords and the Ad Exchange run billions of auctions a day; showing the perfect ad to every user requires simple mechanisms to align incentives while simultaneously optimizing efficiency and revenue. We think that research in these areas benefits from close cooperation between academia...
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Posted by Ryan McDonald, Research Scientist, Google ResearchThis past week, researchers from across the world descended on Montreal for the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). NAACL, as with other Association for Computational Linguistics meetings (ACL), is a premier meeting for researchers who study natural language processing (NLP). This includes applications such as machine translation and sentiment analysis, but also low-level language technologies such as the automatic analysis...
Monday, 11 June 2012
Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, University Relations ManagerA doctoral degree is arguably the ultimate end goal of a modern education. But with the research opportunities now available in industry and the lure of the start-up, why do students pursue this advanced academic achievement? For many, it's the opportunity to explore a fascinating area in great depth. Computer Science is still a young, dynamic field where an innovative researcher might hit on something that can truly change the world. Google’s global fellowship program was created...
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Posted by Jennifer Kurkoski, Ph.D., Manager, People & Innovation LabAt Google we strive for innovation in all aspects of our business, and not just in the realm of technology: we apply science to organizational issues as well. But finding the right answers means asking the right questions—a skill at which academic researchers excel. Thus, a crucial piece of making science a part of HR involves sparking debate among academics and practitioners....
Monday, 4 June 2012
Posted by Corinna Cortes, Google ResearchIn March, we announced on the blog our Excellent Papers for 2011. Chosen papers comprise a tiny fraction of our total publications and were selected for their outstanding contributions to a diverse range of disciplines across the computer science field. In the past, we have offered more detailed discussions of each featured paper in subsequent postings. We are pleased to be able to continue this tradition through our Research at Google page on G+, which we unveiled last month.Just as our publications highlight...
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