Like all of Amazon’s major technology groups, Amazon Prime Video has a dedicated team of scientists who are working constantly to find new ways to delight ...

The 2020 installment of IEEE’s Spoken Language Technologies (SLT) workshop is being held this week, after postponement from its original date. A biennial ...

One of the first things a voice agent like Alexa does when receiving a new instruction is to classify its intent — playing music, getting the weather, ...

In the ever-changing tech sector, jobs are constantly evolving to match new markets and skill requirements. That means career transitions are increasingly ...

USC and Amazon today announced they are creating a joint research center focused on development of new approaches to machine learning (ML) privacy, ...

Amazon Scholars and University of Pennsylvania computer science professors Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth have been awarded a 2021 PROSE Award by the ...

Last fall, Columbia Engineering and Amazon announced the creation of the Columbia Center of AI Technology (CAIT). In conjunction with the news Columbia ...

On Oct. 1, 1950, the journal Mind featured a 27-page entry authored by Alan Turing. More than 70 years later, that paper — "Computing Machinery and ...

In 2019, Alexa launched multilingual mode for US English and US Spanish, which lets customers address Alexa in either language and receive responses in that ...

This morning, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer ...

Quantum computers are an emerging technology that, in the long run, promises to perform some computations much more rapidly — even exponentially more ...

Chess is experiencing a resurgence. Goliath Games told NPR its chess set sales were up 1,048% year-over-year in November 2020. That surge is thanks in part ...