January 30th, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by Ross Koningstein, Engineer, Google RE<C team Cross-posted with the Open Source at Google BlogGoogle’s RE<C renewable energy research project has recently open sourced a new tool and a significant amount of data to support future CSP …
January 20th, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by John Taylor and Kevin SerafiniIn May 2009 we launched Google Sky Map: our “window on the sky” for Android phones. Created by half a dozen Googlers at the Pittsburgh office in our 20% time, the app was designed to show off the amazing cap…
January 13th, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Dan Vanderkam, Software Engineer Google’s BigQuery Service lets enterprises and developers crunch large-scale data sets quickly. But what if you don’t have a large-scale data set of your own?To help the data-less masses, BigQuery offers …
January 3rd, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by Matt Mohebbi, Software Engineer In May of this year we launched Google Correlate on Google Labs. This system enables a correlation search between a user-provided time series and millions of time series of Google search traffic. Since our ini…
December 22nd, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchAccess to massive computing resources is foundational to Research and Development. Fifteen awardees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cluster Exploratory Service (CLuE) program have been applying large sca…
December 9th, 2011 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine and Jon Vaver, Quantitative Analysis TeamAdvertisers want to be able to measure the effectiveness of their advertising. Many methods have been used to address this need, but the most rigorous and trusted of these are randomi…
December 8th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, Google ResearchCross-posted with the Official Google BlogCongratulations to three Googlers elected ACM FellowsIt gives me great pleasure to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that three Goog…
December 6th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
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 provide funding to full-time faculty working on research in areas of mutual int…
December 2nd, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Aimin Zhu, University Relationship Manager, Google ChinaWe just wrapped up a highly successful 2011 Google China Faculty Summit in Hangzhou, China. On November 17 and 18, Googlers from China and the U.S. gathered with more than 80 faculty mem…
November 29th, 2011 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by John Wilkes, Principal Software EngineerGoogle has a strong interest in promoting high quality systems research, and we believe that providing information about real-life workloads to the academic community can help.In support of this we publ…
November 2nd, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research, Youtube
Posted by Charles DuHadway, YouTube Slam Team, Google Research In an earlier post we talked about the technology behind Instant Mix for Music Beta by Google. Instant Mix uses machine hearing to characterize music attributes such as its timbre, mood and…
September 28th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by Allison Mooney, Christina Park, and Caroline McCarthy, The Think Quarterly TeamThere’s a lot of research, analysis and insights—from inside and outside Google—that we use in building our products and making decisions. To share what we
September 27th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by Alison Powell, Google Research TeamAs you may have noticed, the Google Research blog looks a lot different today. That’s because we—along with a few other Google blogs—are trying out a new set of Blogger templates called Dynamic Views.L…
September 7th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Marián Dvorský, Jerry Zhao, and Michael Conley, Systems InfrastructureAlmost three years ago we announced results of the first ever “petasort” (sorting a petabyte-worth of 100-byte records, following the Sort Benchmark …
August 22nd, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Marianna Dizik, StatisticianThe Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) were held in Miami, Florida, this year. Nearly 5,000 participants from academia and industry came to present and discuss the latest in statistical research, methodology, and app…
