Google Opens R&D Facility In Taiwan

Google just announced that it will open a research and development center in Taiwan. Google has hired the former deputy director of the Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science to oversee R&D operations.

“Google’s Taiwan R&D Center opening will dramatically boost Google's service and technology development in the Greater China region,” said Dr Kai-Fu Lee, Vice President, Engineering and President of Google Greater China. “We look forward to seeing even more local talent joining us at the research center. I have been following Dr Chien's excellent work in Chinese information retrieval for the past 10 years. He is recognized as one of the top experts in the world in this area and he is certainly second to none as our choice for the first director of the Google Taiwan R&D Center.”