This paper describes the technical and system building advances made to the Google Home multichannel speech recognition system, which was launched in November 2016. Technical advances include an adaptive dereverberation frontend, the use of neural network models that do multichannel processing jointly with acoustic modeling, and Grid-LSTMs to model frequency variations. On the system level, imp...

Knowledge representation is a traditional field in artificial intelligence. Researchers have developed various ways to represent and share information among intelligent agents. Agents that share resources, data, information, and knowledge perform better than agents working alone. However, previous research also reveals that sharing knowledge among a large number of entities in an open environme...

Earth system science has changed rapidly due to global environmental changes and the advent of observation technology. Therefore, new tools are required monitor, measure, analyze, evaluate, model data. Google (GE) was officially launched by in 2005 as a ”geobrowser”, Engine (GEE) released 2010 cloud computing platform with substantial computational capabilities. The use these two or platforms v...

In this issue, not without some embarrassment, we digest a contribution from our own. The main objective of this study is to ascertain the presence and visibility of Latin American repositories in Google and Google Scholar through the application of page count and visibility indicators. For a sample of 127 repositories, the results indicate that the indexing ratio is low in Google, and virtuall...

Google and Overture Services, Inc. (“Overture”). A First Amended Complaint was filed on May 14, 2004, and on November 29, 2004, Overture was dismissed as a defendant. Therefore, all references to the Complaint in this Opinion are to the First Amended Complaint, and only Google remains as a defendant. In a previous Memorandum Opinion discussed more fully below, the Court dismissed Google’s Motio...

Google Maps and Google Earth are very popular web mapping services but they are not open and not OGC-compliant. The question arises why this is not the case. One reason is that commercial data providers require a tight coupling between the provided maps and additional supplements like advertisements. Another answer to this question is the missing support of mashups that become more and more pop...