[cjbprime]

For what it's worth, I was thinking the same thing. I don't feel this way about Google hiring programmers in general, but I think at this point they've hired some significant double-digit percentage of the world-class machine learning professors in the world, and as I understand it those people don't publish (many) papers anymore.

[haberdasher]

http://research.google.com/pubs/ArtificialIntelligenceandMac...

[cjbprime]

Thanks, I didn't know about that. But you'll probably agree that it's unimpressive: 270 publications (and that appears to be all-time, going back 10 years) for a team of 515 researchers. In academia, you'd expect several per year per researcher.

[robotresearcher]

That's because at university the researchers are being evaluated mainly on the number of papers they produce. Google has other options for evaluation.

Source: some bozos count my papers every couple of years and write an evaluation which displays complete ignorance of my field.