Posted by David Konerding, Staff Software EngineerIn April 2011, we announced the Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty, a new academic research awards program donating one billion core-hours of computational capacity to researchers. The Exacycle project enables massive parallelism for doing science in the cloud, and inspired multiple proposals aiming to take advantage of cloud scale. Today, we would like to share some exciting results from a project built on Google’s infrastructure.Google Research Scientist Kai Kohlhoff, in collaboration with Stanford...
Monday, 16 December 2013
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of EngineeringYesterday, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) released the list of those who have been elected ACM Fellows in 2013. I am excited to announce that Google Research Scientist Moti Yung is among the distinguished individuals receiving this honor.Moti was chosen for his contributions to computer science and cryptography that have provided fundamental knowledge to the field of computing security. We are proud of the breadth and depth of his contributions, and believe they serve as motivation for computer...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Posted by Dave Orr, Google Research Product ManagerNot everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.- William Bruce Cameron50,000 relations from Wikipedia. 100,000 feature vectors from YouTube videos. 1.8 million historical infoboxes. 40 million entities derived from webpages. 11 billion Freebase entities in 800 million web documents. 350 billion words’ worth from books analyzed for syntax.These are all datasets...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Posted by Omid Madani, Senior Software Engineer“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”The “duck test”.Performance of machine learning algorithms, supervised or unsupervised, is often significantly enhanced when a variety of feature families, or multiple views of the data, are available. For example, in the case of web pages, one feature family can be based on the words appearing on the page, and another can be based on the URLs and related connectivity properties. Similarly, videos contain...
Monday, 25 November 2013
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering ManagerConstraint Programming is a style of problem solving where the properties of a solution are first identified, and a large space of solutions is searched through to find the best. Good constraint programming depends on modeling the problem well, and on searching effectively. Poor representations or slow search techniques can make the difference between finding a good solution and finding no solution at all.One example of constraint programming is scheduling: for instance, determining a schedule for a conference...
Friday, 22 November 2013
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsWe held the first global Language Understanding and Knowledge Discovery Focused Faculty Workshop in Nanjing, China, on November 14-15, 2013. Thirty-four faculty members joined the workshop arriving from 10 countries and regions across APAC, EMEA and the US. Googlers from Research, Engineering and University Relations/University Programs also attended the event. The 2-day workshop included keynote talks, panel discussions and break-out sessions [agenda]. It was an engaging and...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Posted by Candice Reimers, Senior Program ManagerResearch shows that professional development for educators has a direct, positive impact on students, so it’s no wonder that institutions are eager to explore creative ways to enhance professional development for K-12 teachers. Open source MOOC platforms, such as Course Builder, offer the flexibility to extend the reach of standard curriculum; recently, several courses have launched that demonstrate new and creative applications of MOOCs. With their wide reach, participant engagement, and rich content,...
Friday, 15 November 2013
This is the last entry of a series focused on Moore’s Law and its implications moving forward, edited from a White paper on Moore’s Law, written by Google University Relations Manager Michel Benard. This series quotes major sources about Moore’s Law and explores how they believe Moore’s Law will likely continue over the course of the next several years. We will also explore if there are fields other than digital electronics that either have an emerging Moore's Law situation, or promises for such a Law that would drive their future performance....
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Posted by Matt Hansen and Peter Potapov, University of Maryland; Rebecca Moore and Matt Hancher, Google Most people are familiar with exploring images of the Earth’s surface in Google Maps and Earth, but of course there’s more to satellite data than just pretty pictures. By applying algorithms to time-series data it is possible to quantify global land dynamics, such as forest extent and change. Mapping global forests over time not only enables...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
This is the third entry of a series focused on Moore’s Law and its implications moving forward, edited from a White paper on Moore’s Law, written by Google University Relations Manager Michel Benard. This series quotes major sources about Moore’s Law and explores how they believe Moore’s Law will likely continue over the course of the next several years. We will also explore if there are fields other than digital electronics that either have an emerging...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
This is the second entry of a series focused on Moore’s Law and its implications moving forward, edited from a White paper on Moore’s Law, written by Google University Relations Manager Michel Benard. This series quotes major sources about Moore’s Law and explores how they believe Moore’s Law will likely continue over the course of the next several years. We will also explore if there are fields other than digital electronics that either have an...
Monday, 11 November 2013
This is the first entry of a series focused on Moore’s Law and its implications moving forward, edited from a White paper on Moore’s Law, written by Google University Relations Manager Michel Benard. This series quotes major sources about Moore’s Law and explores how they believe Moore’s Law will likely continue over the course of the next several years. We will also explore if there are fields other than digital electronics that either have an emerging...
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Posted by Slav Petrov and Dipanjan Das, Research ScientistsOur book scanning effort, now in its eighth year, has put tens of millions of books online. Beyond the obvious benefits of being able to discover books and search through them, the project lets us take a step back and learn what the entire collection tells us about culture and language.Launched in 2010 by Jon Orwant and Will Brockman, the Google Books Ngram Viewer lets you search for words and phrases over the centuries, in English, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, and...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Posted by John Cox and Pavel Simakov, Course Builder Team, Google Research Course Builder is an experimental, open source platform for delivering massive online open courses. When you run Course Builder, you own everything from the production instance to the student data that builds up while your course is running.Part of being open is making it easy for you to access and work with your data. Earlier this year we shipped a tool called ETL (short for extract-transform-load) that you can use to pull your data out of Course Builder, run arbitrary...
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist, Google ResearchPreviously, we presented Deep Shot, a system that allows a user to “capture” an application (such as Google Maps) running on a remote computer monitor via a smartphone camera and bring the application on the go. Today, we’d like to discuss how we support the opposite process, i.e., transferring mobile content to a remote display, again using the smartphone camera.Although the computing power of today’s mobile devices grows at an accelerated rate, the form factor of these devices remains small,...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager Cross-posted with the US Public Policy Blog, the European Public Policy Blog, and Inside Search Blog.Last year, we launched two improvements to Google Patents: the Prior Art Finder and European Patent Office (EPO) patents. Today we’re happy to announce the addition of documents from four new patent agencies: China, Germany, Canada, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Many of these...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Posted by Dan Clancy, Director of ResearchA year ago, we released Course Builder, an experimental platform for online education at scale. Since then, individuals have created courses on everything from game theory to philanthropy, offered to curious people around the world. Universities and non-profit organizations have used the platform to experiment with MOOCs, while maintaining direct relationships with their participants. Google has published a number of courses including Introduction to Web Accessibility which opens for registration today....
Eve Andersson, Manager, Accessibility EngineeringCross-posted with Google Developer's BlogYou work hard to build clean, intuitive websites. Traffic is high and still climbing, and your website provides a great user experience for all your users, right? Now close your eyes. Is your website easily navigable? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people are visually impaired. That’s more than the populations of England, Germany, and Japan combined! As the web has continued to evolve, websites have become more interactive and...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Posted by Julia Wilkowski, Senior Instructional DesignerGoogle has taught five open online courses in the past year, reaching nearly 400,000 interested students. In this post I will share observations from experiments with a year’s worth of these courses. We were particularly surprised by how the size of our courses evolved during the year; how students responded to a non-linear, problem-based MOOC; and the value that many students got out of the...
Monday, 12 August 2013
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University RelationsAnother round of the Google Research Awards is complete. This is our biannual open call for proposals on computer science-related topics including machine learning and structured data, policy, human computer interaction, and geo/maps. Our grants cover tuition for a graduate student and provide both faculty and students the opportunity to work directly with Google scientists and engineers.This round, we received 550 proposals from 50 countries. After expert reviews and committee...
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Posted by Cameron Fadjo, Program Lead, Computer Science Teaching FellowsGoogle recently started up an exciting new program to ignite interest in computer science (CS) for K12 kids. Located in our South Carolina data center, the Computer Science Teaching Fellows is a two-year post graduate fellowship for new STEM teachers and CS graduates. The goal is to bring computer science and computational thinking to all children, especially underrepresented...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Posted by Eugene Weinstein and Pedro Moreno, Google Speech Team Although we’ve been working on speech recognition for several years, every new language requires our engineers and scientists to tackle unique challenges. Our most recent additions - Croatian, Filipino, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese - required creative solutions to reflect how each language is used across devices and in everyday conversations. For example, since Vietnamese is a tonal language, we had to explore how to take tones into consideration. One simple technique is to model the...
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