Two of the three general chairs at this year’s ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) are scientists from Alexa Shopping’s offices in Haifa, ...

Virtually all the images flying over the Internet are compressed to save bandwidth, and usually, the codecs — short for coder-decoder — that do the ...

Editor’s Note: Andrew Borthwick is a principal scientist at Amazon; he leads a team focusing on challenges of automatic machine learning over Amazon’s ...

Editor’s note: Michele Donini is a senior applied scientist with Amazon Web Services (AWS). He and his co-author, Luca Oneto, associate professor of ...

Editor's note: the TaskBot Challenge teams have been selected, you can learn more about them here.Amazon today announced that it is launching a new Alexa ...

Amazon was a Platinum sponsor of WSDM 2021, a conference promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics to ...

Maarek discusses the science behind Alexa Shopping and the newly announced Alexa Prize TaskBot Grand Challenge Source link

Like physical communities, online gathering places can vary substantially in terms of how welcoming they feel. Amanda Cullen, a PhD candidate in informatics ...

Next week, we will open the spring 2021 call for proposals for Amazon Research Awards (ARA) related to two research areas: Alexa Fairness in AI, and AWS ...

Practical question-answering systems often use a technique called answer selection. Given a question — say, “When was Serena Williams born?” — they perform ...

Amazon digital devices such as Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo speakers have become part of the everyday fabric of life for millions of ...

Computer scientist Stefano Ceri didn’t know he would end up working on genomics – the study of genes and their functions – until about eight years ago. A ...