If Google is taking over the world, as some technology watchers have theorized, then it’s doing so one research lab at a time.
The company is planning to open an engineering office in Pittsburgh in 2006, and today it tabbed Andrew W. Moore, a professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, to head the project. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Google’s efforts to help create an Internet research lab appear to be moving along smoothly: The center, which will be run by the University of California at Berkeley, has secured $7.5-million in grants from Google, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.
