At its core, Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Alfred Z Spector, vice president of Research and Special Initiatives at Google, shares the Internet giant’s approach to research innovation in this talk at the University of Washington. Spector shares some of Google’s most promising advances in translation, speech and vision, and considers computer science’s greatest future challenges. From the Series:CSE Colloquia - 2010