The $20 million program will support projects for three years.Read More
3 questions about the Amazon–NSF collaboration on fairness in AI
NSF deputy assistant director Erwin Gianchandani on the challenges addressed by funded projects.Read More
Learning computational tasks from single examples
New “meta-learning” approach improves on the state of the art in “one-shot” learning.Read More
Amazon German R&D center is dedicated to open AI research
‘Lablet’s’ leader, Yasser Jadidi, says the research center’s mission aligns with Amazon’s customer orientation and its responsibility to society.Read More
Making robots better co-workers
Nima Keivan wants to help Amazon’s robots and fulfillment center workers to collaborate more effectively, so that robots can perform the more mundane tasks, while the humans can focus on higher-value jobs.Read More
Understanding a changing climate
AWS recently sponsored the Causality for Climate (C4C) competition at the 2019 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference. The competition focused on the causal discovery and development of new ways to understand climate data.Read More
Combining knowledge graphs, quickly and accurately
Novel cross-graph-attention and self-attention mechanisms enable state-of-the-art performance.Read More
How Amazon Fellow Inderjit Dhillon is improving shopping discovery on Amazon
Developing machine learning frameworks that can enhance context-aware AI has been an area of focus for Dhillon’s entire career.Read More
Why do you want that? (And who’s it for?)
Predicting customers’ “contexts of use” could improve online product discovery.Read More
Vanessa Murdock is a classical pianist turned Amazon applied scientist
Vanessa Murdock, manager of Applied Science, talks about how her training as a classical pianist helps her be a better scientist, why she joined Amazon, and how her work at Amazon affects the lives of millions of customers.Read More