Alexa Fund company releases updated and streamlined skill for Alexa that includes "AI Lullaby" soundscape with vocals, music, and voiceovers by Grimes.

With PyTorch and TensorFlow incorporated, the authors hope to gain a wider audience.

Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the 'never-ending journey' to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more...

Amazon Scholar David Card wins half the award, while academic research consultant Guido Imbens shares in the other half.

Amazon Science hosts a conversation with Amazon Scholars Michael I. Jordan and Michael Kearns and Amazon distinguished scientist Bernhard Schölkopf.

The collaboration will support research, education, and outreach efforts in areas of mutual interest, beginning with artificial intelligence and robotics.

Dive into Deep Learning combines detailed instruction and math with hands-on examples and code.

Times Square display honors scientists, engineers, and mathematicians past, present, and future.

Amazon Visiting Academic Barbara Poblete helps to build safer, more-diverse online communities — and to aid disaster response.

MASSIVE dataset and Massively Multilingual NLU (MMNLU-22) competition and workshop will help researchers scale natural-language-understanding technology to every language on Earth.

How the Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technologies principal economist uses his expertise in time series econometrics to forecast aggregate demand.

Amazon Research Award recipient Russ Tedrake is teaching robots to manipulate a wide variety of objects in unfamiliar and constantly changing contexts.

Center to support novel approaches to trust-centric machine learning and AI innovation.

Amazon Machine Learning Conference highlights use of machine learning across the company’s businesses and its increasing value to customers.

Jhala received the ACM honor for lifetime contributions to software verification, developing innovative tools to help computer programmers test their code.

ARA funds nearly twice as many awards as in previous year; 100 award recipients represent 59 universities in 13 countries.

Tools include optimizations for multicore, multiple-GPU, and distributed-training settings.

Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.

Amazon Research Award recipient Jonathan Tamir is focusing on deriving better images faster.

The University of Oxford professor believes computer modeling and simulation are poised to trigger major breakthroughs in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of cardiology patients.

Earlier this year, Amazon notified grant applicants who were recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards.

Technique that lets devices convey information in natural language improves on state of the art.

Awardees, who represent 51 universities in 15 countries, have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.

Parallel speech recognizers, language ID, and translation models geared to conversational speech are among the modifications that make Live Translation possible.

Dive into Deep Learning combines detailed instruction and math with hands-on examples and code.

The computer scientist recently finished her second internship at Amazon, where she worked on a new way to estimate the human expression on faces in images.

“Body language” and an awareness of social norms help Amazon’s new household robot integrate gracefully into the home.

University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering professor honored for his ‘substantial contributions to the field of theoretical quantum information science’.

For the first time, the largest genomic sequencing repository in the Americas will be natively accessible on AWS through the Open Data Sponsorship Program.

Amazon Scholar Pablo Castells on the trends he sees in recommender-system research.

Initiative will be led by the Virginia Tech College of Engineering and directed by Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering Naren Ramakrishnan.

New AI model enables iterative refinement of results and better color matching.

The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.

The senior product manager leading hardware and software product development at the Center for Quantum Computing wants to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality.

Watch the recording of Marc Brooker's presentation on Firecracker, an open source virtualization platform.

Two of the world’s leading experts on algorithmic bias look back at the events of the past year and reflect on what we’ve learned, what we’re still grappling with, and how far we have to go.

A new distributed-training library achieves near-linear efficiency in scaling from tens to hundreds of GPUs.

The Art Museum skill uses Alexa Conversations, an AI-driven dialogue management tool.

Amazon has announced its picks for 2021 Best Books of the Year So Far, including its top book within the science category, "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the...

Amazon's machine learning leader for startups is also working to include more underrepresented groups in the workforce.

Howard University is the first Black college to host the American Economic Association Summer Training and Scholarship Program.

Amazon Books editors have announced their picks for 2021 Best Books of the Year, including the top book within the general interest science category, Walter Isaacson's 'The Code Breaker'.

The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.

Seeger and three coauthors are honored for paper that forged durable links between previously separate domains.

Representing facts using knowledge triplets rather than natural language enables finer-grained judgments.

Researchers propose a method to automatically generate training data for Alexa by identifying cases in which customers rephrase unsuccessful requests.

Research investigates how to construct recommendation algorithms when the search space is massive and how to perform natural-language searches on the COVID-19 literature.

Nafea Bshara, AWS vice president and distinguished engineer, discusses Annapurna Lab’s path to silicon success; Annapurna co-founder was a featured speaker at AWS Silicon Innovation Day virtual event.

As the major quantum computing conference celebrates its anniversary, we ask the conference chair and the head of Amazon’s quantum computing program to take stock.

Team Passing Through, with three academics working together, earns $100,000 first prize.