Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research Access to massive computing resources is foundational to Research and Development. Fifteen awardees of the National Science Foundation )NSF( Cluster Exploratory Service )CLuE( program have been applying large scale computational resources donated by Google and IBM . Overall, 1,328 researchers have used the cluster to perform over 120 million computing tasks on the cluster and in the process, have published 49 scientific publications,

Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine and Jon Vaver, Quantitative Anaylsis Team Advertisers want to be able to measure the effectiveness of their advertising. Many methods have been used to address this need, but the most rigorous and trusted of these are randomized experiments, which involve randomly assigning experimental units to control and test conditions. At Google, we have found that randomized geo experiments are a powerful approach to measuring the effectiveness of advertising.

Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations )Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ( Last week, we held our seventh annual Computer Science Faculty Summit . For the first time, the event took place at our New York City office ; nearly 100 faculty members from universities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America attended. The two-day Summit focused on systems, artificial intelligence and mobile computing. Alfred Spector,

Posted by Matthias Grundmann , Vivek Kwatra , and Irfan Essa , Research Team Earlier this year, we announced the launch of new features on the YouTube Video Editor , including stabilization for shaky videos, with the ability to preview them in real-time. The core technology behind this feature is detailed in this paper , which will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ) CVPR 2011 (.

Posted by John Wilkes, Principal Software Engineer On July 14 and 15, we held our seventh annual Faculty Summit for the Americas with our New York City offices hosting for the first time. Over the next few days, we will be bringing you a series of blog posts dedicated to sharing the Summit's events, topics and speakers. -Ed At this year's Faculty Summit, I had the opportunity to provide a glimpse into the world of cluster management at Google.

For the past two years, we've looked forward to honoring the best and the brightest graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees around the globe through Google's fellowship program. We're thrilled to be supporting these students with a monetary gift, but what happens after the awards are given out? An important component of our fellowship program is the Google research mentor. Each fellowship student is paired with a full-time Googler based on mutual research interests.

Posted by Kartik Singh and Kuntal Loya, Google Scribe team Since Google Scribe's first release on Google Labs last year, we have been poring over your feedback and busy adding the top features you asked for. Today, we're excited to announce a new version of Google Scribe that brings more features to word processing. Besides formatting,

Posted by Dan Belov, Principal Engineer and David Konerding, Software Engineer We're pleased to announce a new academic research grant program: Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty . Through this program, we'll award up to 10 qualified researchers with at least 100 million core-hours each, for a total of 1 billion core-hours. The program is focused on large-scale, CPU-bound batch computations in research areas such as biomedicine, energy, finance, entertainment,

Posted by Ciprian Chelba, Research Scientist About three years ago we set a goal to enable speaking to the Google Search engine on smart-phones. On the language modeling side, the motivation was that we had access to large amounts of typed text data from our users. At the same time, that meant that the users also had a clear expectation for how they would interact with a speech-enabled version of the Google Search application.

Posted by Bill Coughran, Senior Vice President of Engineering I'm happy to share that Ken Thompson has been chosen as the recipient of the prestigious Japan Prize . The Japan Prize is bestowed for achievements in science and technology that promote the peace and prosperity of mankind. Ken was awarded the prize along with Dennis Ritchie for their development of the UNIX operating system in 1969 while at Bell Labs.

Posted by Ullas Gargi and Rich Gossweiler, Research Team It 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 onscreen keyboard is extremely tiresome. People have been working on building better ways to search on the TV, ranging from small keyboards to voice input to interesting gestures you might make to let the TV know what you want.

Posted by Slav Petrov, Research Scientist The 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 we do here at Google. Googlers have therefore been traditionally part of this research community, participating as program committee members, paper authors and attendees. At this year's EMNLP conference Google Fellow,

Posted by Dmitriy Genzel, Software Engineer Once upon a midnight dreary, long we pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of translation lore. When our system does translation, lifeless prose is its creation; Making verse with inspiration no machine has done before. So we want to boldly go where no machine has gone before. Quoth now Google, "Nevermore!" Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is what gets lost in translation.