Posted by Daniel Wolf, Software EngineerToday, we launched Julia Map on Google Labs, a fractal renderer in HTML 5. Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, Benoît Mandelb…
Posted by Slav Petrov, Doug Aberdeen, and Lisa McCracken, Google ResearchThe machine learning community met in Vancouver in December for the 24th Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS). As always, the single-track program of the main c…
Posted by Corinna Cortes and Alfred Spector, Google ResearchGooglers actively engage with the scientific community by publishing technical papers, contributing open-source packages, working on standards, introducing new APIs and tools, giving talks and…
Posted by Ryan Hickman and Mamie Rheingold, 20% Robotics Task ForceWith a beer fridge stocked and music blasting, engineers from across Google—and the world—spent the month of October soldering and hacking in their 20% time to connect hobbyist and …
Posted by Karen Parker, App Inventor Program ManagerIn July, we announced App Inventor for Android, a Google Labs experiment that makes it easier for people to access the capabilities of their Android phone and create apps for their personal use. We w…
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsWe’ve just completed the latest round of Google Research Awards, our program which identifies and supports faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. We had a record nu…
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchI am delighted to share with you that, like last year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that four Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in 2010, the most this year from any single corp…
Posted by Posted by Yun-hsuan Sung (宋雲軒) and Martin Jansche, Google ResearchOn November 30th 2010, Google launched Cantonese Voice Search in Hong Kong. Google Search by Voice has been available in a growing number of languages since we launched o…
Posted by Pedro J. Moreno, Staff Research Scientist and Johan Schalkwyk, Senior Staff EngineerWelkom*!Today we’re introducing Voice Search support for Zulu and Afrikaans, as well as South African-accented English. The addition of Zulu in particular r…
Posted by Ullas Gargi and Rich Gossweiler, Research TeamIt seems clear that the TV is a growing source of online audio-video content that you select by searching. Entering characters of a search string one by one using a traditional remote control and …
Posted by Elaine Kao, Education Program ManagerOver the past year, a group of California-credentialed teachers along with our own Google engineers came together to discuss and explore ideas about how to incorporate computational thinking into the K-12 …
Posted by Slav Petrov, Research ScientistThe Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’10) was recently held at the MIT Stata Center in Massachusetts. Natural Language Processing is at the core of many of the things that w…
Posted by Slav Petrov, Research ScientistWe would like to congratulate Kuzman Ganchev for being the runner-up for the John Atanasoff award from the President of the Republic of Bulgaria. Kuzman recently joined our New York office as a research scientis…
Posted by Mike Schuster & Kaisuke Nakajima, Google ResearchGoogle Voice Search has been available in various flavors of English since 2008, in Mandarin and Japanese since 2009, in French, Italian, German and Spanish since June 2010 (see also in thi…
Posted by Jayant Madhavan and Alon HalevyPeople today use search engines for all their information needs, but when they pose a particular search query, they typically have a specific underlying intent. However, when looking at any query in isolation, i…