Google Research Awards – December 2011 Economics and Market Algorithms Moses Charikar, Princeton University Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University John Quinn, Makerere University James Andreoni, University of California - San Diego Education Cathleen Norris, University of North Texas, and Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan David Pritchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ben Bederson, University of Maryland - College Park Judith Warren Little, University of California - Berkeley Jan L. Plass, New York University Geo and maps Marie-Francoise Durand, Patrice Mitrano, and Benoit Martin, Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris Moustafa Youssef, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology Kartik Ariyur, Purdue University Bernhard Lehner, McGill University Andrew Tatem, University of Florida Health John Brownstein and John Ayers, Harvard University Vicki Hanson and Ian Ricketts, University of Dundee Human Computer Interaction James Weiland, Laurent Itti, and Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California Charles Bigelow and Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology Clifford Nass and Danielle Lottridge, Stanford University Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard University Eve Riskin, University of Washington Leah Findlater, University of Maryland - College Park Jean-Daniel Fekete, Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique Stephane Chatty, University of Toulouse Andreas Bulling, University of Cambridge Edward Adelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Information Retrieval Daniel Lidar and Silvano Garnerone, University of Southern California Jacob Wobbrock and Jeff Huang, University of Washington Panagiotis Ipeirotis and Anindya Ghose, New York University Xiaoyan Zhu, Tsinghua University Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Miles Efron, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University Oren Kurland, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Vittorio Ferrari, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule - Zurich Mark Chignell, University of Toronto Machine Learning Noah Smith and Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University Nathan Srebro, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Koby Crammer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Elad Hazan, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Machine Translation Shaojun Wang, Wright State University Nizar Habash, Columbia University Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University Mobile Zhuoqing Mao, University of Michigan Sachin Katti, Stanford University Serge Belongie, University of California - San Diego Ben Zhao, University of California - Santa Barbara Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology Lin Zhong, Rice University Bjoern Hartmann, University of California - Berkeley Multimedia Tsachy Weissman, Stanford University Juan Carlos Niebles, Universidad del Norte Luca de Alfaro, University of California - Santa Cruz

Natural Language Processing Ivan Titov and Alexandre Klementiev, Universitat des Saarlandes Hermann Ney, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento Mona Diab, Columbia University Bing Liu, University of Illinois - Chicago Hinrich Schuetze, University of Stuttgart Networking Ken Christensen, University of South Florida, and Pedro Reviriego, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija

Scott Shenker, University of California - Berkeley, and Barath Raghavan, International Computer Science In Zhenghao Zhang, Florida State University Joseph Kahn, Stanford University William Dally, Stanford University Policy and Standards Maciej Kisilowski and Bernadett Koles, Central European University Privacy Asimina Vasalou and Russell Beale, University of Birmingham Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University Heather Lipford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University Security Wenliang Du, Syracuse University Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham Jan Vitek, Purdue University David Evans, University of Virginia Social Networks Susan Davidson and Julia Stoyanovich, University of Pennsylvania Ulrik Brandes and Jurgen Lerner, University of Konstanz Evimaria Terzi and Azer Bestavros, Boston University Philip Fong, University of Calgary Mor Naaman, Rutgers University Matthew Salganik, Princeton University Eric Gilbert, Georgia Institute of Technology

Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California - Davis Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge Alan Mislove, Northeastern University Tamara Berg, Stony Brook University Software Engineering Mark Harman and Shin Yoo, University College London Wei Le, Rochester Institute of Technology Vijay Ganesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Roberto Natalini, Universitaa di Roma John Regehr, University of Utah Michael Ernst, University of Washington Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Speech Stefan Bleeck and Matthew Wright, University of Southampton, and Ian Winter, University of Cambridge Etienne Barnard, North-West University Structured Data James Cheney and Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh Yi Chen, Arizona State University Anthony Tomasic, Carnegie Mellon University Hanan Samet, University of Maryland - College Park Systems and Infrastructure Kunle Olukotun and Jason Mars, Stanford University Tapan Parikh, University of California - Berkeley, and Umar Saif, LUMS Ashvin Goel and Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin - Madison Wojciech Matusik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alan Willner, University of Southern California Michael Spear, Lehigh University Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University Emery Berger, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Chunming Qiao, State University of New York - Buffalo Mike Dahlin, University of Texas - Austin

Other Tom Postmes, Namkje Koudenburg, and Ernestine Gordijn, University of Groningen Richard Heusdens, Delft University of Technology Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California - Santa Cruz Hadley Wickham, Rice University Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell University George Alvarez, Harvard University