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 ...

Language models, which encode the probabilities of particular sequences of words, have been much in the news lately for their almost uncanny ability to ...

Emine Yilmaz, an Amazon Scholar and a professor of computer science at University College London, has for years been intimately involved with the European ...

Alex Smola, Amazon vice president and distinguished scientist The Conference on Machine Learning and Systems ...

Mobile robots are popping up all around us. They check inventory while rolling down supermarket aisles, clean airport floors at night, supply and sanitize ...

COVID-19 has cost us precious lives and served a harsh reminder that so much more needs to be done to prepare for unforeseen events. In these difficult ...

SageMaker Clarify helps detect statistical bias in data and machine learning models. It also helps explain why those models are making specific predictions. ...

A machine learning training job can seem to be running like a charm, while it’s really suffering from problems such as overfitting, exploding model ...