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...
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