Dr. Peter Norvig (smugmug.com)
Dr Peter Norvig, went from NASA senior computer scientist to Director of Research at Google. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world’s longest palindromic sentence.
This morning, he lists out the latest and greatest at Google at SMX West this morning. The slides were very brief so I don’t have much in terms of details.
a) Person finder - Help find people in Chile – created to help earthquake victims locate friends and family.
b) Power Meter – an online tool that will help determine out how much power you’re using daily in your home.
c) Earth engine – see where deforestation is occurring, overlays on Google earth.
d) Street Views – now working on bike paths and ski slopes. User photos will soon be showing in street views.
e) Image Swirl – a tool that relates images together.
f) Web-scale image annotation – tool that matches images to the queries that trigger those images.
g) Image rotation captcha – easy for users, hard to crack.
h) Google goggles – phone app that can be used to search based on taking photos.
i) Discontinuous video scene carving – break down images into real powerful photos.
j) Sharing cluster data – data lists for the education community
k) App inventor for Droid – teaches programmers how to write apps for Droid
l) Speech Recognition with a very low error rate
m) Punctuation and Capitalization in Transcribed Speech
n) Translating Phone
o) Low Resource MT: Yiddish – recognize multiple blend languages like Yiddish
p) Sound Understanding using stabilized auditory image – what’s that smashing sound – Google knows its a car crash!
q) Google squared – puts together data about companies in a simple to read graph
r) Clustering Words – determine clusters of related words based on same concepts.
s) Attribute Extraction – recognize related attributes for terms, like slopes to Whistler
t) Browser Size – see what percentage of browsers can see what portions of your page.
Dr. Norvig says PageRank is over-hyped, but caught on because it’s a catchy phrase. Old links can increase pagerank but real time data is more of an indicator to Google. We are now working on manufacturing links by reading material and seeing who articles are referencing. We will read a book and try to determine who the book is referencing.
Google Caffeine is only live in one datacenter.
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