Posted by Mei Han and Sergey Ioffe, Research TeamThe computer vision community will get together in Colorado Springs the week of June 20th for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011). This year will see …
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations We’ve just finished awarding the latest round of Google Research Awards, which provide funding to full-time faculty working on research in areas of mutual interest with Googl…
Posted by Douglas Eck, Research ScientistMusic Beta by Google was announced at the Day One Keynote of Google I/O 2011. This service allows users to stream their music collections from the cloud to any supported device, including a web browser. It’…
Posted by Kartik Singh and Kuntal Loya, Google Scribe teamSince Google Scribe’s first release on Google Labs last year, we have been poring over your feedback and busy adding the top features you asked for. Today, we’re excited to announce a new versio…
Posted by Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira, Research TeamThe Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics is one of the premier conferences for language and text technologies. Many employees at Google have strong roots in the commu…
Posted by Rebecca Shapley, Jayant Madhavan, Rod McChesney, and Kathryn Hurley, Fusion Tables teamGoogle Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish …
Posted by Yang Li, Research ScientistCross-posted with the Technical Programs and Events Blog Google has an increasing presence at ACM CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which is the premiere conference for Human Computer Interact…
Posted by Aimin Zhu, China University RelationsWe’re excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Tsinghua University to provide educational support to five major universities in Western China: Qinghai, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Ningxia, and Yunnan. Toge…
Posted by Dan Belov, Principal Engineer and David Konerding, Software EngineerWe’re pleased to announce a new academic research grant program: Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty. Through this program, we’ll award up to 10 qualified researchers wi…
Posted by Deirdre O’Brien and Diane Tang, Adwords TeamAt Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-visible changes suc…
Posted by Martin Jansche and Alex Salcianu, Google Speech TeamAs you might know, Google Voice Search is available in more than two dozen languages and dialects, making it easy to perform Google searches just by speaking into your phone.Today it is our …
Posted by Linne Ha, International Program ManagerRead more about the launch of Voice Search in Latin American Spanish on the Google América Latina blog.Today we are excited to announce the launch of Voice Search in Indonesian, Malaysian, and Latin Ame…
Posted by Hyunyoung Choi and Paul Liu, Senior EconomistsA few years ago, our in-house economists, Hal Varian and Hyunyoung Choi, demonstrated how to “predict the present” with monthly visitor arrivals to Hong Kong. We took this idea further to see…
Posted by Yossi Matias, Senior Director, Head of Israel R&D CenterIn an effort to advance the understanding of market algorithms and Internet economics, Google has launched an academic research initiative focused on the underlying aspects of online…
Posted by Jason Weston and Samy Bengio, Research TeamIn our paper, we introduce a generic framework to find a joint representation of images and their labels, which can then be used for various tasks, including image ranking and image annotation.We foc…