Bo Li — a new Amazon Visiting Academic and former Amazon Research Award recipient — is making sure algorithms are not only smarter but more trustworthy.Read More
Using hyperboloids to improve product retrieval
Method using hyperboloid embeddings improves on methods that use vector embeddings by up to 33%.Read More
Amazon at WSDM: The future of graph neural networks
Amazon’s George Karypis will give a keynote address on graph neural networks, a field in which “there is some fundamental theoretical stuff that we still need to understand.”Read More
Amazon Robotics, Hampton University team up to establish robotics program
Amazon funding will assist with a senior capstone course where students will receive mentorship from Amazon leading researchers, software developers, and engineers.Read More
Alexa Prize has a new home
Amazon Science is now the destination for information on the SocialBot, TaskBot, and SimBot challenges, including FAQs, team updates, publications, and other program information.Read More
Amazon Scholar Ranjit Jhala named ACM Fellow
Jhala received the ACM honor for lifetime contributions to software verification, developing innovative tools to help computer programmers test their code.Read More
Alexa AI team discusses NeurIPS workshop best paper award
Paper deals with detecting and answering out-of-domain requests for task-oriented dialogue systems.Read More
Automated reasoning’s scientific frontiers
Distributing proof search, reasoning about distributed systems, and automating regulatory compliance are just three fruitful research areas.Read More
New UW-Amazon Science Hub launches
The collaboration will focus on advancing innovation in core robotics and AI technologies and their applications.Read More
Amazon expands SURE program to boost diversity in STEM education
New programs with Georgia Tech and the University of Southern California are established; existing Columbia University program expands.Read More