tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10861780.post-83487093402693052602008-10-06T14:44:00.000-07:002008-10-06T14:47:00.418-07:002008-10-06T14:47:00.418-07:00We've just posted the first three videos in the <a href="http://research.google.com/roundtable/" id="icld" title="Google Technology RoundTable series">Google Technology Roundtable Series</a>. Each one is a discussion with senior Google researchers and technologists about one of our most significant achievements. We use a talk show format, where I lead a discussion on the technology.<br /><br />While the videos are intended for a reasonably technical audience, I think they may be interesting to many as an overview of the key challenges and ideas underlying Google's systems. And of course they offer a glimpse into the people behind Google.<br /><br />The first one we made is "<a href="http://research.google.com/roundtable/LSS.html" id="gzhc" title="Large-Scale Search System Infrastructure and Search Quality.">Large-Scale Search System Infrastructure and Search Quality</a>." I interview Google Fellows <a href="http://research.google.com/people/jeff/index.html">Jeff Dean</a> and <a href="http://singhal.info/">Amit Singhal</a> on their insights in how search works at Google.<br /><br />The next title is "<a href="http://research.google.com/roundtable/MR.html" title="Map Reduce">Map Reduce</a>," a discussion of this key technology (first, at Google, and now having a great impact across the field) for harnessing parallelism provided by very large-scale clusters computers, while mitigating the component failures that inevitably occur in such big systems. My discussion is with four of our Map Reduce expert engineers: Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean again, plus Software Engineers <a href="http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/%7Ezhao/">Jerry Zhao</a> and <a href="http://lafstern.org/matt/">Matt Austern</a> who discuss the origin, evolution and future of Map Reduce. By the way, this type of infrastructure underlies the infrastructure concepts in our recent post on "<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/intelligent-cloud.html">The Intelligent Cloud</a>."<br /><br />The third video, "<a href="http://research.google.com/roundtable/HLT.html" title="Applications of Human Language Technology">Applications of Human Language Technology</a>," is a discussion of our enormous progress in large-scale automated translation of languages and speech recognition. Both of these technology domains are coming of age with capabilities that will truly impact what we expect of computers on a day-to-day basis. I discuss these technologies with human language technology experts <a href="http://www.fjoch.com/">Franz Josef Och</a>, an expert in the automated translation of languages, and Mike Cohen, an expert in speech processing.<br /><br />We hope to produce more of these, so please leave feedback at YouTube (in the comments field for each video), and we will incorporate your ideas into our future efforts.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[Cross-posted on the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-technology-roundtable-series.html">Google Research Blog</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.]</span><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives</span>Karennoreply@blogger.com