Learn how Bill Smart wants to simplify the ways that robots and people work together — and why waiting on a date one night changed his career path.Read More
MLSys 2021: Bridging the divide between machine learning and systems
Amazon distinguished scientist and conference general chair Alex Smola on what makes MLSys unique — both thematically and culturally.Read More
ECIR 2021: Where information retrieval becomes conversation
In the future, says Amazon Scholar Emine Yilmaz, users will interact with computers to identify just the information they need, rather than scrolling through long lists of results.Read More
New dataset, metrics enable evaluation of bias in language models
Human-evaluation studies validate metrics, and experiments show evidence of bias in popular language models.Read More
How one computer scientist and his team aim to bring genome data search to the next level
Politecnico di Milano professor Stefano Ceri is working to integrate genomic datasets into a single accessible system with the support of an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award.Read More
Lab126, University of Maryland collaborate to develop reliability models to build resilient devices
Amazon Lab126 and the Center for Risk and Reliability will study how devices are accidentally damaged — and how to help ensure they survive more of those incidents.Read More
Establishing a new standard in answer selection precision
A model that uses both local and global context improves on the state of the art by 6% and 11% on two benchmark datasets.Read More
Amazon Research Awards issues spring 2021 call for proposals
Submission period extends from March 22 to April 23, 2021.Read More
How one intern’s research had real-world impact for Twitch moderators
Amanda Cullen, a PhD candidate in informatics at the University of California, Irvine, wanted to do work that had an impact outside of academia — she found an ideal opportunity at Twitch.Read More
Alexa & Friends features Yoelle Maarek, vice president of research and science, Alexa Shopping
Maarek discusses the science behind Alexa Shopping and the newly announced Alexa Prize TaskBot Grand ChallengeRead More