Posted by Murray Stokely, Software EngineerThe 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘10) was recently held in Vancouver, B.C. This biennial conference is one of the premiere forums for presenting innovative resea…
Posted by Vincent Vanhoucke, Google ResearchWhile we continue to launch exciting new speech products–most recently Voice Actions and Google Search by Voice in Russian, Czech and Polish–we also strive to contribute to the academic research community b…
Posted by Phil Long, Research TeamIt is easy to find the bottom of a bowl no matter where you start — if you toss a marble anywhere into the bowl, it will roll downhill and find its way to the bottom.What does this have to do with Machine Learning? A…
Posted by Ciprian Chelba, Research TeamIt is with great sadness that we note the passing of Fred Jelinek, teacher and colleague to many of us here at Google. His seminal contributions to statistical modeling of speech and language influenced not only u…
Posted by Anne Aula, Rehan Khan, and Zhiwei Guan, User Experience TeamHow does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?At Google, we strive to make finding information easy, efficient, and even fun. However, we know that once in a while…
Posted by Hendrik Mueller, User Experience ResearcherWhen I relocated to New York City a few years ago, some of the most important health information for me to have on hand was my immunization history. At the time, though, my health records were scatte…
Posted by Matthias Grundmann and Vivek Kwatra, Google ResearchVideos come in different sizes, resolutions and aspect ratios, but the device used for playback, may it be your TV, mobile phone, or laptop, only has a fixed resolution and form factor. As a…
Posted by Johan Schalkwyk, Google ResearchWind the clock back two years with your smart phone in hand. Try to recall doing a search for a restaurant or the latest scores of your favorite sports team. If you’re like me you probably won’t even bother…
Posted by Dennis Abts, Michael R. Marty, Philip M. Wells, Peter Klausler, and Hong LiuThis is part of the series highlighting some notable publications by Googlers. At Google, we operate large datacenters containing clusters of servers, networking swi…
Posted by Corinna Cortes and Alfred Spector, Google ResearchWe often get asked if Google scientists and engineers publish technical papers, and the answer is, “Most certainly, yes.” Indeed, we have a formidable research capability, and we encour…
Posted by Fernando Pereira, Research DirectorGooglers were recognized in three of the four paper awards at ICML 2010: Sajid Siddiqi was co-recipient of the best paper award for Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov Models with Le Song, Byron Boots,…
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University RelationsWe’re excited to announce the latest round of Google Research Awards, our program which identifies and supports full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest….
Posted by Mike Schuster & Martin Jansche, Google ResearchOn June 16th, we launched our Korean voice search system. Google Search by Voice has been available in various flavors of English since 2008, in Mandarin and Japanese since 2009, and in Frenc…
Posted by Thad Hughes, Martin Jansche, and Pedro Moreno, Google ResearchGoogle’s speech team is composed of people from many different cultural backgrounds. Indeed, if we count the languages spoken by our teammates, the number comes to well over a do…
Posted by Alon Halevy, Google Research and Rebecca Shapley, User ExperienceA year ago we launched Google Fusion Tables, an easy way to integrate, visualize and collaborate on data tables in the Google cloud. You used it and saw the potential, and told …