Every interaction with Alexa begins with the wake word: usually “Alexa”, but sometimes “Amazon”, “Echo”, or “Computer” — or, now, “Hey Samuel”. Only after ...

Amazon is a Platinum sponsor of INFORMS 2020, a conference promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics ...

One of the most intriguing challenges in computer vision is understanding dynamic scenes through the snapshots of a single moving camera. Imagine trying to ...

This year, the National Association for Business Economics’ Tech Economic Conference (TEC) is convening for only the fourth time. Amazon is one the ...

Job Description ATE (Analytics, Technology and Engineering) is a multi-disciplinary team of ...

Editor’s Note: Christos Christodoulopoulos is a senior applied scientist within the Alexa Knowledge team based in Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on ...

Amazon’s goal for Alexa is that customers should find interacting with her as natural as interacting with another human being. Toward that end, in ...

At a virtual student event connected to the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Amazon Robotics and the recently established ...

At this year’s Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Julia Hirschberg, an Amazon Scholar and a professor of computer ...

As vice president of machine learning at Amazon India, Rajeev Rastogi is helping his team drive innovations that have a profound impact not only on shoppers ...

Question answering through reading comprehension is a popular task in natural-language processing. It’s a task many people know from standardized tests: a ...

More and more, interactions with Alexa involve multiturn dialogues, which Alexa uses to fill out the details of a request or coordinate multiple ...