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🀫 Gratitude · the Google community

The people who make Google, Google.

Gratitude to the researchers, engineers, and open-source builders across Google, DeepMind, and Alphabet who shaped how the world searches, learns, and builds with AI. Cited from public work.

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48 of 1024 Β· celebrated from public information, cited on every card.

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Sundar Pichai

CEO of Google and Alphabet; shepherded Chrome, Android, and Google's AI-first shift

Google / Alphabet

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for steering Chrome and Android to billions of people and then betting the company on making AI genuinely helpful and broadly available.

Google blog β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind; Nobel laureate for AlphaFold

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for building DeepMind and for AlphaFold, which handed the whole world the structures of nearly every known protein and earned a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Nobel Prize β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist of Google; co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow, and TPUs

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for the systems that quietly power modern computing, from MapReduce and Bigtable to TensorFlow, and for co-founding the Brain team that reshaped machine learning.

Google Research β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Sanjay Ghemawat

Google Senior Fellow; co-architect of MapReduce, GFS, Bigtable, and Spanner

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-designing the storage and computation foundations, GFS, MapReduce, Bigtable, and Spanner, that let the web scale to everyone.

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Oriol Vinyals

VP of Research and Deep Learning Lead at Google DeepMind; co-lead of Gemini

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for work from sequence-to-sequence learning and AlphaStar to co-leading Gemini, pushing what a single model can perceive and do.

Google Research β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Koray Kavukcuoglu

CTO of Google DeepMind and Google's Chief AI Architect

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for years of foundational deep-learning research at DeepMind and for the work of carrying world-class models into products people actually use.

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David Silver

Reinforcement learning lead at Google DeepMind; lead researcher on AlphaGo and AlphaZero

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for AlphaGo and AlphaZero, which learned to master Go, chess, and shogi from self-play alone and showed the world what reinforcement learning could become.

Wikipedia β†—ACM Prize β†—
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John Jumper

Director at Google DeepMind; led AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for leading AlphaFold to solve protein structure prediction, a decades-old grand challenge, and giving biologists a gift that keeps accelerating discovery.

Nobel Prize β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Shane Legg

Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding DeepMind and for a lifetime of careful thinking about machine intelligence, helping popularize the very term AGI.

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Quoc V. Le

Founding Google Brain researcher; pioneer of seq2seq, AutoML, and neural architecture search

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for large-scale unsupervised learning, sequence-to-sequence models, and AutoML, ideas that quietly power translation and modern language models.

Wikipedia β†—
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Slav Petrov

VP of Research at Google DeepMind; co-lead on Gemini

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for a decade of natural language research that reached billions through Search, Translate, and Assistant, and for helping lead Gemini today.

Google Research β†—
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Zoubin Ghahramani

VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Professor at Cambridge; Bayesian machine learning leader

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for advancing probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning and for leading Google Brain research with rigor and generosity toward the field.

Google Research β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Vint Cerf

VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; co-designer of TCP/IP and Turing Award laureate

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-inventing the protocols the internet runs on and for continuing, at Google, to champion an open and accessible network for everyone.

Turing Award β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Peter Norvig

Director of Research and Engineering Director at Google; co-author of the standard AI textbook

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for leading Google research and for Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the book that taught AI to generations of students.

Personal site β†—Wikipedia β†—
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David Patterson

Distinguished Engineer at Google; Turing Award laureate and TPU pioneer

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for RISC and RAID and for bringing that architectural genius to Google's TPUs, the chips that make large-scale AI affordable.

Google Research β†—Turing Award β†—
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Norman Jouppi

VP and Engineering Fellow at Google; chief architect of the Tensor Processing Unit

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for architecting Google's TPUs from the first generation onward and delivering the first to production in fifteen months, powering a decade of AI.

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Amin Vahdat

VP and chief AI infrastructure technologist at Google; builder of TPUs, Jupiter networking, and Axion

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for quietly building the AI backbone, custom TPUs, the Jupiter network, and Axion CPUs, that keeps Google's models fast and available at planetary scale.

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Urs Holzle

Google Fellow and early SVP of Technical Infrastructure; pioneer of Google's data center design

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for designing the warehouse-scale data centers and energy-efficient infrastructure that made Google fast, reliable, and remarkably green.

Wikipedia β†—

Rob Pike

Distinguished Engineer at Google; co-creator of the Go programming language and UTF-8

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-creating Go, a language whose simplicity and concurrency made a generation of cloud infrastructure a joy to build.

GitHub β†—Wikipedia β†—

Robert Griesemer

Google engineer; co-creator of the Go programming language

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-designing Go and shepherding its type system and tooling, giving developers a language that is fast to write, read, and run.

GitHub β†—Go blog β†—
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Ken Thompson

Google engineer and Turing Award laureate; co-creator of Unix, B, and the Go language

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for Unix and for bringing that timeless taste in systems to Google as a co-creator of Go, connecting five decades of computing craft.

Turing Award β†—Wikipedia β†—

Tim Hockin

Principal Software Engineer at Google; a co-originator and technical lead of Kubernetes

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for helping originate Kubernetes and for years of patient stewardship of its networking and APIs, work that reshaped how the world ships software.

GitHub β†—Homepage β†—

Kelsey Hightower

Former Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud; beloved Kubernetes teacher and advocate

Google (former)

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for Kubernetes the Hard Way and countless talks that demystified cloud-native computing and welcomed so many engineers into the field with warmth.

GitHub β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Dianne Hackborn

Software engineer at Google and founding Android team member; architect of the Android framework

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for designing Android's application model and core system services, the invisible framework that makes billions of phones feel responsive and coherent.

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Romain Guy

Senior staff engineer at Google on Android graphics; creator of the Filament rendering engine

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for the hardware-accelerated rendering that made Android smooth and for open-sourcing Filament, a beautiful gift to graphics developers everywhere.

Personal site β†—GitHub β†—

Addy Osmani

Engineering leader on Google Chrome; author and web performance advocate

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for tirelessly teaching the web to be fast, through Chrome, Lighthouse guidance, and books that raised the craft of front-end engineering.

Personal site β†—GitHub β†—

Paul Irish

Google Chrome engineer; co-founder of Lighthouse and DevTools contributor

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse, and for years of open web tooling that made debugging and measuring the web feel humane.

Personal site β†—GitHub β†—
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Martin Abadi

Google researcher; co-creator of TensorFlow and a leader in security and differential privacy

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-creating TensorFlow and for foundational work on differential privacy, helping machine learning be both powerful and respectful of people.

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Ruth Porat

President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google; former longtime CFO

Alphabet / Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for the financial discipline and steady stewardship that let Google invest boldly in research and infrastructure while staying grounded.

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Thomas Kurian

CEO of Google Cloud

Google Cloud

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for growing Google Cloud into an enterprise-grade platform and for bringing Google's AI and data tools to businesses building the future.

Wikipedia β†—
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James Manyika

SVP of Research, Technology and Society at Google; leader on AI's societal impact

Google

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for holding Google's technology to a broader test, connecting cutting-edge research with honest questions about its effect on people and society.

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Geoffrey Hinton

Former Google researcher and Turing Award and Nobel laureate; a founder of deep learning

Google (former)

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Why we celebrate them

Thank you for a decade of work at Google and a lifetime of foundational research on neural networks that made the modern era of AI possible.

Nobel Prize β†—Wikipedia β†—
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Ashish Vaswani

Google Brain researcher, lead co-author of Attention Is All You Need, the paper that introduced the Transformer.

Essential AI (formerly Google Brain)

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Why we celebrate them

At Google Brain he helped design and build the very first Transformer, the architecture nearly every modern AI model now stands on.

Attention Is All You Need (NeurIPS) β†—
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Noam Shazeer

Longtime Google engineer, Transformer co-author, and later Gemini co-lead; inventor of Mixture-of-Experts and multi-query attention.

OpenAI (formerly Google)

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Why we celebrate them

Across 17 years at Google he shaped the Transformer, sparse Mixture-of-Experts, and then Gemini itself, ideas that quietly power a whole generation of AI.

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Jakob Uszkoreit

Google Brain researcher and Transformer co-author who worked on early Google Translate.

Inceptive (formerly Google Brain)

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Why we celebrate them

Thirteen years at Google Brain, from early Translate to co-authoring the Transformer, and now he is turning that same attention toward RNA medicine.

CNBC profile β†—
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Llion Jones

Google researcher and Transformer co-author who proposed the title Attention Is All You Need.

Sakana AI (formerly Google)

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Why we celebrate them

Nearly twelve years at Google, and the Welsh engineer who literally named the paper that started the modern AI era.

CNBC profile β†—
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Pushmeet Kohli

VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud, leading AI for Science.

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

He built and leads the DeepMind team behind AlphaFold, AlphaProof, and AlphaGenome, using AI to open real doors in biology, materials, and math.

Google Research profile β†—
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Ian Goodfellow

Google DeepMind research scientist and inventor of the generative adversarial network (GAN).

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

His GANs, invented as a Google Brain scientist, taught machines to imagine, and he wrote the textbook a whole field learned deep learning from.

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Anna Goldie

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind pioneering reinforcement learning for chip design.

Google DeepMind

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Why we celebrate them

She co-founded Google Brain's ML-for-Systems team and taught AI to help design the very chips that AI runs on.

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Greg Corrado

Distinguished Scientist and Google Brain co-founder who led Google's Health AI work.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

A neuroscientist who helped found Google Brain in 2011 and then pointed that power at medicine, from RankBrain to Med-PaLM and detecting eye disease.

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas

VP and Fellow at Google Research, CTO of Technology and Society, and inventor of Federated Learning.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

He brought machine learning onto the phone in your pocket and invented Federated Learning so models can learn without ever taking your private data.

Google Research profile β†—
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Fernando Pereira

VP and Engineering Fellow at Google leading natural language understanding research.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

A giant of computational linguistics who has spent years at Google teaching machines to actually understand the way people write and speak.

Google Research profile β†—
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Yossi Matias

VP at Google and GM of Google Research, leading Health AI, Crisis Response, and conversational AI.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

The Godel Prize winner behind Google Duplex, Live Caption, and Med-PaLM, always aiming research at things that help people in real life.

Google Research profile β†—
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Pandu Nayak

Google Fellow and Chief Scientist for Search, who brought BERT to Google Search ranking.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

For nearly two decades he made Search understand what people really mean, and led the leap that let it read a query in full context.

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Parisa Tabriz

VP and GM of Google Chrome, security leader once known as the Security Princess.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

She keeps billions of people safe every day on the web's most-used browser, and oversees Project Zero, the team that hunts the internet's most dangerous bugs.

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Dave Burke

Longtime VP of Engineering for Android, now a Google AI and bioengineering advisor.

Google

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Why we celebrate them

For a decade he shipped the Android in a billion pockets, from Nexus and Pixel to Android TV, and now turns AI toward hard-to-treat childhood cancers.

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Cliff Young

Google engineer and one of the original architects of the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).

Google

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Why we celebrate them

He helped design the TPU, the custom silicon that powers Search, Translate, and the training of Google's biggest models, and co-founded the MLPerf benchmark.

Google Research profile β†—
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Francois Chollet

Former Senior Staff Engineer at Google, creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

Ndea (formerly Google)

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Why we celebrate them

During nine years at Google he built Keras, the friendly front door through which countless people learned deep learning, and set an honest bar for what real intelligence should be.

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