A fair amount of Google research does end up published. It's impossible to know what percentage. However, there is not the "publish or perish" pressure on Google researchers to publish. In most cases, they are encourged to engage with the broader research community via attendance at relevant conferences (academic, academic/industry, multi-stakeholder) as and when it's important for their research and personal career development. In the fields of privcy and security (one of my core areas) i regularly encounter Google-based researchers on technical and socio-technical issues at conferences and read their papers. In addition to a lack of external pressure to publish from their institution, they do have to get permission to submit from managers which in the case of conferences or special issues with tight deadlines, can lead the researchers to be less likely to publish. This is similar to many other tech-related companies such as telcos (I've worked directly with people at KDDI, the second largest Japanese telco).
Other major applied research organisations in tech vary a lot. MS reserachers are invovled in some fields quite heavily, but not in others. I don't believe i've ever seen a paper published by an Amazon researcher, and it's well-known that Amazon discourages company-based commits to FLOSS projects (but on a case-by-case basis allows individuals to submit code as individuals if they can make a case that it serves Amazon's purposes for the general code-base to include Amazon's own developments). -- Dr Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
