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...
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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...
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsExtending the school year one day can result in a year’s worth of learning. This proved true on June 8, when the 2011 Google Faculty Institute (GFI) cohort were welcomed back for a day, to share best practices and perspectives from their funded research over the 2011-12 school year. For the past year, the GFI Fellows collaborated across 16 California State University campuses,...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
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 is our bi-annual open call for proposals on research in areas of mutual interest with Google. Our funding provides full-time faculty the opportunity to fund a graduate student and work directly with Google research scientists and engineers. This round, we are funding 104 awards across 21 different focus areas for a total of nearly $6 million. The subject areas that received the highest...
Monday, 2 July 2012
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special InitiativesGoogle started as a research project—and research has remained a core part of our culture. But we also do research differently than many other places. To shed more light on Google’s unique approach to research, Peter Norvig (Director of Research), Slav Petrov (Senior Research Scientist) and I recently published a paper, “Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research,” in the July issue of Communications of the ACM. In the paper, we describe our hybrid approach...
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