When Matt Taddy earned his PhD in applied mathematics and statistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2008, the notion of a data-science ...

The automatic conversion of text to speech is crucial to Alexa: it’s how Alexa communicates with customers. The models developed by the Amazon ...

A. Ippokratis: As we highlight in the paper, the service has evolved at a rapid pace in response to customers’ needs. We focused on four main areas: 1) ...

SQL database queries often include repetitions of the same operation. For instance, finding an entry in a table that corresponds to a particular person ...

Guido Imbens, an Amazon academic research consultant and professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who was one of three recipients of the 2021 ...

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the major conference in the field of robotics, takes place this week, and Amazon is one of ...

Each day, Amazon receives millions of orders. For each one, it makes a promise about when those items will show up on customers’ doorsteps. ...

Amazon Robotics recently announced fourteen new recipients of the Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship, a program established to support exceptionally ...

Today at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a paper by my colleagues at the University of Surrey and me, “Translating images ...

Amazon and Max Planck Society (also known as Max-Planck-Gesellschaft or MPG) today announced the formation of a Science Hub. The collaboration marks the ...

In the digital era, when documents are generated and distributed at unprecedented rates, automatically understanding them is crucial. Consider the tasks of ...

Kathleen McKeown, the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and an Amazon Scholar, has a storied history with ...