In 2018, Amazon launched a feature in the U.S. that enables Alexa to whisper back when whispered to, a feature that was expanded to all Alexa locales in ...

At re:Invent 2019, Amazon executive Swami Sivasubramanian spoke about a commitment to democratizing machine learning, and making its benefits available to ...

Amazon hosts internal conferences throughout the year to connect the company’s scientists to each other, and to the academic community at large. For ...

Most of the major advances in artificial intelligence in the past decade, in both industry and academia, have been the result of supervised deep learning, ...

Amazon prides itself on being the most customer-centric company on earth. That means maintaining the highest possible standards of both security and privacy ...

For the last 10,000 years, large scale agriculture has lived outdoors, optimized to withstand unpredictable environmental conditions and long ...

Betty Mohler is a principal research scientist at Amazon. Mohler was a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt focusing on sensorimotor control ...

Amazon has strong ties to the Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) conference, which starts next week in Houston. Amazon is a gold sponsor of the conference, ...

The last few years have seen great advances in the design of language models, which are a critical component of language-based AI systems. Language models ...

What’s the organizational model within Alexa Shopping?Broadly speaking, the Alexa Shopping science organization includes two types of roles: applied ...

Sahika Genc is a principal applied scientist with Amazon. Her team works on reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for Amazon Sagemaker, which provides ...

Editor’s Note: We have been closely monitoring the situation with COVID-19, and after much consideration, we have made the decision to cancel re:MARS 2020. ...