Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsThrough Google’s University Relations program, we maintain strong ties with academic institutions globally, pursuing innovative research in core areas relevant to our mission. I…
Posted by Simon Tong, Google ResearchWhen faced with a hard prediction problem, one possible approach is to attempt to perform statistical miracles on a small training set. If data is abundant then often a more fruitful approach is to design a highly s…
Posted by Sanjiv Kumar and Henry Rowley, Google ResearchA few weeks ago we announced the launch of a new orkut application in Google Labs called People Hopper that lets you take your profile image and “morph” it into a friend’s photo, using publicly av…
Posted by Brad Chen, Technical Lead/ManagerAs part of our series on research areas of interest to Google, we discuss some important areas relating to cluster applications in distributed systems. In the last two decades distributed systems have undergon…
Posted by Joseph L. Hellerstein, Manager of Google Performance AnalyticsGoogle faces a large number of technical challenges in the evolution of its applications and infrastructure. In particular, as we increase the size of our compute clusters and scal…
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations and Jeff Walz, Head of University RelationsWe do a significant amount of in-house research at Google, but we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions globally, pursu…
Posted by Mike Schuster, Google Research and Kaisuke Nakajima, Google JapanOn December 7th, we launched our new Japanese voice search system (音声検索), which has been available for various flavors of English since last year and for Mandarin Chines…
Posted by Michele Covell, Vision Research TeamRecently, Google’s research groups reviewed over 140 grant proposals across sixteen different research areas. During this process, we identified a number of strategic research topics. These topics represent…
Posted by Hartmut Neven, Technical Lead Manager Image RecognitionMany Google services we offer depend on sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning or pattern recognition. If one takes a closer look at such capabilities…
Posted by Hanah Kim, University Programs[cross-posted with the Google Student Blog]As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, we are pleased to host the first…
Posted by Christopher Alberti and Michiel Bacchiani, Google ResearchOn November 19, we launched our new automatic captioning and automatic alignment feature for YouTube. These features significantly reduce the effort it takes to create captions for vid…
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchI’m excited to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has just announced that four Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in its class of 2009. Jeff Dean, Tom Dean, Urs Hoelzle and Yossi Matias …
Posted by Jon Feldman and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NYThe 50th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) was held a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. This conference (along with STOC and SODA) is one of the the major venues for re…
Posted by Mike Belshe, Software Engineer and Roberto Peon, Software EngineerCross-posted with the Chromium Blog.Today we’d like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced “SPeeDY”, an early-stage research project that is part of…
Posted by Pedro J. Moreno, Research ScientistGoogle Search by Voice was released more than one year ago as a feature of Google Mobile App, our downloadable application for smartphones. Its performance has been improving consistently and it now understa…