Tackling the most challenging problems in computer science

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that positively impact society. Core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field, to help more people more quickly. We regularly publish in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products to benefit users at scale.

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Mitigating aviation’s climate impact with Project Contrails

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Consensus and subjectivity of skin tone annotation for ML fairness

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A toolkit for transparency in AI dataset documentation

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Building better pangenomes to improve the equity of genomics

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A set of methods, best practices, and examples for designing with AI

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Learn more from our research

Researchers across Google are innovating across many domains. We challenge conventions and reimagine technology so that everyone can benefit.

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Publications

Google publishes over 1,000 papers annually. Publishing our work enables us to collaborate and share ideas with, as well as learn from, the broader scientific community.

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Research areas

From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.

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Tools and datasets

We make tools and datasets available to the broader research community with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.

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Meet the people behind our innovations

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Our teams collaborate with the research and academic communities across the world

Explore our many areas of focus

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From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.

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Research areas

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field.

Our researchers publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

Learn more about our research philosophy and principles .

Algorithms and Theory

Data Management

Data Mining and Modeling

Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing

Economics and Electronic Commerce

Education Innovation

General Science

Hardware and Architecture

Health & Bioscience

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

Information Retrieval and the Web

Machine Intelligence

Machine Perception

Machine Translation

Mobile Systems

Natural Language Processing

Quantum Computing

Responsible AI

Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention

Software Engineering

Software Systems

Speech Processing

Meet the groups behind our innovation

Our teams advance the state of the art through research, systems engineering, and collaboration across Google.

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  1. Our projects

    Browse our library of open source projects, public datasets, APIs and more to find the tools you need to tackle your next challenge or fuel your next breakthrough.

  2. Resources

    Resources. We make tools and datasets available to the broader research community with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.

  3. Publications

    Google publishes hundreds of research papers each year. Publishing our work enables us to collaborate and share ideas with, as well as learn from, the broader scientific community.

  4. Research

    RESEARCH: Tackling the most challenging problems in computer science. Our teams aspire to make discoveries that positively impact society. Core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field, to help more people more quickly.

  5. Research Areas

    Learn more about our research philosophy and principles. Algorithms and Theory. Data Management. Data Mining and Modeling. Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing. Economics and Electronic Commerce. Education Innovation. General Science. Hardware and Architecture.