June 6th, 2006 | by Peter Norvig | published in Google Research
Posted by Michele Covell & Shumeet Baluja, Research ScientistsEuro ITV (the interactive television conference) took place in Athens last week. The presentations included a diverse collection of user studies, new application areas, and exploratory …
June 2nd, 2006 | by Peter Norvig | published in Google Research
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley’s first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. students to write a binary search, and then dissected one of our implementations in front of the class. …
April 28th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Franz Och, Research ScientistBecause we want to provide everyone with access to all the world’s information, including information written in every language, one of the exciting projects at Google Research is machine translation. Most state-o…
April 27th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Allen Hutchison, Engineering ManagerAutomated testing is one of my passions: it has hard problems to be solved, and they get harder every day. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on several automation projects, and now I…
April 23rd, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Rick Boardman, User Experience ResearcherThe raison d’etre for our user experience research team is driven by Google’s keen interest in focusing on the user. So we help many product teams provide the best possible experience to everyone aro…
March 22nd, 2006 | by Peter Norvig | published in Google Research
Posted by Sumit Agarwal, Maryam Kamvar, & Michael Stoppelman With 4 seconds left to go, the Team Cheesy Poofs robot shouldered its way onto the 3 foot platform, pivoted 90 degrees into scoring position, and rapid-fired 10 balls directly into the 3-poi…
March 11th, 2006 | by Peter Norvig | published in Google Research
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchYou know the Google story: small start-up of highly-skilled programmers in a garage grows into a large international company. But how do you maintain the skill level while roughly doubling in size each y…
March 7th, 2006 | by Neil Daswani | published in Google Research
Posted by Neil Daswani & Ravi Jain, Google; and Saikat Guha, Cornell UniversityVoIP (Voice-over-IP) systems are one of the fastest growing means of communication on the Internet, enabling free or low-cost phone calls. But to date, researchers have had…
March 4th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Corinna Cortes, Head, Google Research NY Google Research is about teamwork with outstanding engineers to solve novel and challenging problems that have an impact. But it’s also about being at the forefront of scientific innovations. We’re an …
February 17th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchWe’ve been asked what Google Research is like, and we thought the best way to answer is with a blog. First let me say that we’re not like the stereotype of a Research Lab: the place where you hide all th…