Amazon today announced it is launching a new Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a competition focused on helping advance development of next-generation virtual ...

Clouds are famously hard to pin down. This is problematic in a world in which climate science is key to our future existence, and it is high time clouds ...

Amazon was founded in 1994 and six years later the company hired its first research scientist, Russell Allgor. Over the past 21 years, Allgor has seen the ...

On October 6, Siddhartha (Sidd) Srinivasa joined Nia Jetter, Amazon Robotics AI senior principal technologist, to discuss the field of robotics, Amazon ...

Notebook computers, tablets, and smartphones get the tech headlines, but these are largely mature products at this point. Smaller, more personal devices are ...

When Cristiana Lara was growing up in Rio de Janeiro, she became obsessed with challenging math problems, working on them feverishly until she could solve ...

Editor’s Note: This interview is the latest installment within a series Amazon Science is publishing related to the science behind products and services ...

Helmut Katzgraber, senior practice manager of the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a ...

On Monday, the Swedish Academy announced the three recipients of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — two of ...

Most machine learning models use supervised learning, meaning they’re trained on annotated data, which is costly and time consuming to acquire.The chief ...

In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to synthesize realistic visual images from scratch.But ...

On Oct. 14, Gérard Medioni, Amazon vice president and distinguished scientist, and emeritus professor at the University of Southern California (USC), ...