Googlers receive multiple awards at the 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning

• Sajid Siddiqi was co-recipient of the best paper award for Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov Models with Le Song, Byron Boots, Geoff Gordon, and Alex Smola
• John Duchi, who is also a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was co-recipient of the best student paper award for On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms with Lester Mackey and Michael Jordan
• And last but not the least, Yoram Singer was co-recipient of the best 10-year paper award for the most influential paper of ICML 2000, Reducing Multiclass to Binary: A Unifying Approach for Margin Classifiers (pdf) with Erin Allwein and Robert Schapire, which has currently 852 citations in Google Scholar.

I feel a particular connection to this last paper as Rob and Yoram were members of technical staff and Erin a student intern at the department I headed at AT&T Labs when this work was done.