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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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 …
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…
Posted by Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MITMIT and Google have a long-standing relationship based on mutual interests in education and technology. Today, we took another step forward in our shared goals with the establishm…
Posted by Nina Kim Schultz, Google Education ResearchCross-posted with the Official Google BlogSchool may still be out for summer, but teachers remain hard at work. This week, we hosted Google’s inaugural Faculty Institute at our Mountain View, Calif…
Posted by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, Visiting Faculty at GoogleFour years ago, we set out to create a research engine that would help people explore our cultural history by statistically analyzing the world’s books. In January 201…
Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist We constantly move from one device to another while carrying out everyday tasks. For example, we might find an interesting article on a desktop computer at work, then bring the article with us on a mobile phone du…
Posted by Daniel Ford and Josh BatsonThe web is vast and infinite. Its pages link together in a complex network, containing remarkable structures and patterns. Some of the clearest patterns relate to language.Most web pages link to other pages on the s…
Posted by Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist (Cross-posted on the Translate Blog and the Official Google Blog) Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five…
Posted by Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, and Irfan Essa, Research TeamEarlier this year, we announced the launch of new features on the YouTube Video Editor, including stabilization for shaky videos, with the ability to preview them in real-time. Th…