Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018

2018 was an exciting year for Google's research teams, with our work advancing technology in many ways, including fundamental computer science research results and publications, the application of our research to emerging areas new to Google (such as healthcare and robotics), open source software contributions and strong collaborations with 

Google product teams, all aimed at providing useful tools and services. Below, we highlight just some of our efforts from 2018, and we look forward to what will come in the new year:

  • Ethical Principles and AI
  • AI for Social Good
  • Assistive Technology
  • Quantum computing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Perception
  • Computational Photography
  • Algorithms and Theory
  • Software Systems
  • AutoML
  • Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) 
  • Open Source Software and Datasets
  • Robotics
  • Applications of AI to Other Fields




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