July 26th, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Kevin McCurley, Research TeamIt is with great sadness that we note the passing of Randy Pausch, who taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Randy was well-known by many within the research community, including quite a number of…
May 20th, 2008 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Phil LongMachine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence in which, naturally enough, the aim is to get computers to learn: things like improving performance over time, and recognizing general tendencies among a number of specific c…
May 6th, 2008 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Rich GossweilerAs part of the interview process at Google we try to describe what it is like to do research here. A common question I get is “How hard is it to publish at Google?” I want to dispel the myth that it is hard. It is easy to publi…
May 1st, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Shumeet Baluja and Yushi JingAt WWW-2008, in Beijing, China, we presented our paper “PageRank for Product Image Search”. In this paper, we presented a system that used visual cues, instead of solely text information, to determine the rank o…
April 23rd, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Christophe Bisciglia, Senior Software Engineer, and Alfred Spector, Vice President of ResearchThe emergence of extremely large datasets, well beyond the capacity of almost any single computer, has challenged traditional and contemporary metho…
March 28th, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Francoise BeaufaysA couple of years ago, a few of us got together and decided to build Goog411. It would be a free phone service that users could call to connect to any business in the US, or simply to browse through a list of businesses such…
February 11th, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software EngineerManaging huge repositories of data and large clusters of machines is no easy task — and building systems that use those clusters to usefully process that data is even harder. Last year, we held a conference …
October 18th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Jeff Walz and Kevin McCurleyThe world’s research and educational infrastructures are tightly intertwined. Research universities enable students to participate in research activities, and research contributes to the vitality of the educationa…
September 23rd, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Ashok C. Popat, Research ScientistStatistical methods of text analysis have become increasingly sophisticated over the years. A good example is automated topic analysis using latent models, two variants of which are Probabilistic latent sema…
September 19th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Jeremy BrewerWe’ve gotten an incredible amount of positive feedback about Sky in Google Earth, which lets Google Earth users explore the sky above them with hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies taken from astronomy imagery.From the star…
August 21st, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Andy Connolly and Ryan ScrantonAt Google we are always interested in creating new ways to share ideas and information and applying these techniques to different research fields. Astronomy provides a great opportunity with an abundance of imag…
July 26th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Michael Lancaster and Josh Estelle, Software EngineersWhenever we talk to university researchers, we hear a consistent message: they wish they had Google infrastructure. In pursuit of our company mission, we have built an elaborate set of sys…
June 18th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Ziv Bar-Yossef and Kevin McCurley, Research TeamThe pace of innovation on the World Wide Web continues unabated more than fifteen years after the first servers went live. The web was initially used by only a small community of scientists, bu…
June 18th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Kevin McCurley, Research TeamWe’ve recently launched a Google Research web site that we’ll be updating to provide information about research activities at Google. Among other things, one thing you’ll find there is the ability to search and v…
February 16th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Amanda Camp, Software EngineerWe care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn’t cut it when we are talking global access, millions of people, millions of search queries. We think big and love to …