Posted by Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Pedro Moreno & Eugene WeinsteinText isn’t the only source of information on the web! We’ve been working on a variety of projects related to audio and visual recognition. One of the fundamental constraints tha…
Posted by Peter NorvigEveryone else is giving you year-end top ten lists of their favorite movies, so we thought we’d give you ours, but we’re skipping Cars and The Da Vinci Code and giving you autonomous cars and open source code. Our top twenty (we …
Posted by Proud GooglersWe’re usually a modest bunch, but we we couldn’t help but let you know about some honors and awards bestowed on Googlers recently: Ramakrishnan Srikant is the winner of the 2006 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award for his work on prunin…
Posted by Alex Franz and Thorsten Brants, Google Machine Translation TeamHere at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction, …
Posted by Michele Covell & Shumeet Baluja, Research ScientistsEuro ITV (the interactive television conference) took place in Athens last week. The presentations included a diverse collection of user studies, new application areas, and exploratory …
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley’s first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. students to write a binary search, and then dissected one of our implementations in front of the class. …
Posted by Sumit Agarwal, Maryam Kamvar, & Michael Stoppelman With 4 seconds left to go, the Team Cheesy Poofs robot shouldered its way onto the 3 foot platform, pivoted 90 degrees into scoring position, and rapid-fired 10 balls directly into the 3-poi…
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchYou know the Google story: small start-up of highly-skilled programmers in a garage grows into a large international company. But how do you maintain the skill level while roughly doubling in size each y…