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,...
Thursday, 26 September 2013
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...
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