Research at Google

http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

by interconnector • 13 years ago

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thenerdfiles4• 13 years ago

Good bye, Ivory Tower.

You have to stare at terminals like we do now. [=

chrismonsanto• 13 years ago

What does that even mean?

thenerdfiles4• 13 years ago

It means reproducibility is essential to publication, and reproducibility requires software development.

dinkumthinkum2• 13 years ago

I was wondering the same thing.

tzury• 13 years ago

So we have got today on HN front page Research from Google, Microsoft and Facebook, nice.

Note, there is no Research-Publications at Apple. They do their research secretly and silently.

threeseed• 13 years ago

Neither does Nike, Samsung, Coke, BMW etc. Apple is a product company.

The above are as well but they also deal a lot with raw engineering problems which lend well to being shared and communicated with others.

selmnoo• 13 years ago

Neither does Nike, Samsung, Coke, BMW etc. Apple is a product company.

Apple is more in line with Microsoft (what with the operating systems and all) than your other examples. Apple should be duly faulted for their closed nature ways in this context.

ekianjo• 13 years ago

Apple is mainly a software company (outsourcing manufacturing to other partners, while they do the design internally). So I don't really see why they shouldn't share anything about their software/engineering work just like the other companies.

mattquiros• 13 years ago

How about Amazon? I imagine they also have pretty good R&D there but I couldn't find anything.

midgetjones• 13 years ago

I wondered if it was a day when companies were supposed to release research papers. I guess it's just the NH hivemind instead.

zdw• 13 years ago

Apple provides developers for quite a few projects like LLVM, webkit, and the like. Their OS level projects end up here: http://www.macosforge.org

They just don't have generic "research" divisions like the other companies. This is one (of many) result of Steve Jobs return - anything that wasn't product focused got canned.

jmduke• 13 years ago

Even if it's not entirely altruistic, I'm glad Big Tech has recognized the tremendous value proposition of dedicating resources to pure unabated research. It's a cliche example, but the work of Xerox PARC will outlive the work of Xerox; and if the best way to conjure meaningful research is to throw money at the geniuses, then sign me and my pitching arm up.

(Note: I don't mean this as a criticism of Google, Microsoft, or Facebook -- as a company committing themselves and publishing research is unequivocally better than one which doesn't.)

axaxs• 13 years ago

Absolutely agree. As "evil" as ATT is now, and obviously not the same company, think about Bell Labs. I honestly don't know howmuch Bell gained from it, but its existence has had a huge impact in various fields. Its works will long outlive the company.

thenerdfiles4• 13 years ago

    import requests
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

hrasyid• 13 years ago

Why do we suddenly have all these "Research at XXX" at the same time in the front page?

samworm• 13 years ago

Because when an area of a business is reported in a positive light the supporters of other business with similar activities all want to shout "me too". Such is life.

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