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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Researchers across Google are innovating across many domains. We challenge conventions and reimagine technology so that everyone can benefit.
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.
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.
Tools and datasets
We make tools and datasets available to the broader research community with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.
Meet the people behind our innovations
Our teams collaborate with the research and academic communities across the world
Explore our many areas of focus
From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.
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.
COMMENTS
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.
Resources. We make tools and datasets available to the broader research community with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.
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.
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.
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.