Google X

Google X ( Google 's own notation [x]) denotes a research division of the U.S. company Google Inc. The research laboratory is located near the central Google campus in Mountain View, California.

Goals and ambitions

The name Google X is a word game, where X stands for the unknown, so the company name means search for the unknown. Chief researcher is the Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The company was set up by the German robotics expert Sebastian Thrun.

The company was created to implement the highly ambitious goals of the Google founders. Larry Page would like his role model Nikola Tesla as a prominent inventors contribute to progress. He has grouped under the term 10X Thinking His philosophy. That is to say, it is easier to make everything ten times better than a 10 percent better. By Larry Page 's statement comes: "There is hardly any competition while exploring technological limits, because no one is crazy enough to try it."

Moonshot

For the projects in search of a big hit there at Google has its own name: Moonshot. The term refers to the famous announcement of U.S. President John F. Kennedy initially beginning of the sixties to shoot a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Sebastian Thrun reported the mantra of Google is: "If you change the lives of 100 million people, then you're not successful. The to you only if you change the lives of a billion people " and to the research costs and product development costs. Behind The price we're after, is so great that there money is not important on the way.

Projects

Among the projects of Google X include Google Glass ( one worn on the head miniature computer in the context of augmented reality ), a digital contact lens to measure the blood glucose level, the development of autonomous vehicles, Project Loon ( Internet services via balloons in the stratosphere ) and the Internet of the things referred to as Web 3.0.

Google Brain and Mind Deep

The Google Brain Project ( Google brain) tried google mimic the neuron connections of the human brain. For this project, the company has the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton recruited, who tried with his Deep Learning Theory computer science and neuroscience to merge. In January 2014 Google acquired to further this effort, for $ 450 million, the British Artificial Intelligence Lab Deep Mind. First application of the research of Geoffrey Hinton is to improve the speech recognition of the smartphone operating system from Google.