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.@EndelSound has released an updated Alexa skill that includes an “AI Lullaby” soundscape with vocals, music and voiceovers by @Grimezsz. Co-founders @stvtsk and @dmitryevgrafov explain how the company’s AI-powered tech provides personalized soundscapes. amazon.science/latest-news/t…
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A team of Amazon scientists have compiled an interactive, open source book called Dive into Deep Learning that's gaining wide popularity with universities. It teaches the ideas, mathematical theory and code that powers deep learning. Learn more: amazon.science/latest-news/a… #OSS #ML
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🗣️ Announcing Amazon Nova Sonic, a new speech-to-speech foundation model that can understand voice as input & generate a human-like voice as output.
➡️ Available via a new API in Amazon Bedrock, the model simplifies the development of voice applications: amzn.to/4cljCZ7
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Amazon scientists have added support for @PyTorch and @TensorFlow to their open source, interactive book Dive into Deep Learning. Find out more about @D2L_ai in our Q&A with @astonzhangAZ @zacharylipton @mli65 @smolix on Amazon Science. amazon.science/deep-learning…
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Announcing Amazon Nova, a new generation of foundation models that have state-of-the-art intelligence across a wide range of tasks, & industry-leading price performance.
Learn more about the new Amazon Nova models available in Amazon Bedrock: amzn.to/4gkYd3j #AWSreInvent
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10 years ago today, Amazon launched DynamoDB which @Werner described as a “fast, highly reliable and cost-effective" database service. @SwamiSivasubram reflects on DynamoDB's origins, and the journey to make it more secure & available. @awscloud #AWS amazon.science/latest-news/a…
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Great to see the impact they've had at Twitter, and across industry and academia! We're also pleased to share the work they've done at Amazon too: amazon.science/latest-news/t… #NobelPrize
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On the cusp of @NeurIPSConf, Amazon scholars Michael I. Jordan and Michael Kearns, and Amazon distinguished scientist Bernhard Schölkopf sat down with Amazon Science to discuss the future of AI and the rise of the machine learning industry. #NeurIPS2021 amazon.science/videos-webina…
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Amazon, @MIT & @MIT_SCC announced the establishment of the Science Hub, a collaboration that will focus on areas of mutual interest, beginning with #artificialintelligence & robotics. This will support research, education & outreach efforts. #AmazonScience amzn.to/3l6nnIY
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Find out how professor @mmbronstein, in the Department of Computing at @imperialcollege, is using pioneering machine learning to push the boundaries of drug design, among other things — including decoding whale speech. #AmazonResearchAwards #OurImperial amzn.to/3xPvGgB
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Over the past two years, Amazon scientists @smolix @zacharylipton @astonzhangAZ & Mu Li have compiled an open source, interactive book about deep learning that includes code, math, and discussions Check out @D2L_ai and learn more here: amazon.science/latest-news/a… #AmazonScience
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Amazon Robotics researchers have a vision: develop robots in simulation first. They want to write software against virtual robots, test in realistic simulations, verify safety on a real robot, and deploy. And they're making real progress—learn how: amzn.to/3E1inNO
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Announced today, @awscloud and @MSFTResearch partnered to create a new @GitHub organization called PyWhy—where novel causal-analysis algorithms developed by Amazon will augment DoWhy, Microsoft's existing causality library. #AmazonScience #AWS
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Today, we're celebrating scientists, engineers, and mathematicians past, present, and future with our Pi Day billboard in Times Square. Check it out at 3:14pm ET, and learn more about the campaign here: amzn.to/pidaytw #PiDay
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Amazon scientist @c_russl and colleagues won the best paper award at @ieee_ras_icra. Learn how the researchers adapted language-processing techniques to convert images into aerial maps. #ICRA2022
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🚀 Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable teacher model for creating custom distilled models, is now available on Amazon Bedrock!
Built for complex tasks like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), function calling, and agentic coding, its one-million-token context window enables analysis of large datasets while being the most cost-effective proprietary model in its intelligence tier.
Learn more: amzn.to/4jwmV2l
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In this paper, scientists from @awscloud report their experience applying lightweight formal methods to validate the correctness of ShardStore, a new key-value storage node implementation for the Amazon S3 cloud object storage service. Learn more: amzn.to/3AUGjzY #AWS
ALT Using lightweight formal methods to validate a key-value storage node in Amazon S3
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Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift in the AWS global infrastructure to process exabytes of data daily. Authors @rahulpathak and @Hippotas reflect on how the petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse has advanced, and where they see it evolving. #DataWarehouse #DataLake
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Amazon researchers have released an open-source family of pretrained models for time series forecasting. Chronos is built on a language model architecture and trained with billions of tokenized time series observations to provide accurate zero-shot forecasts for new time series.
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The Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar published "Advice to a Young Scientist" in 1979. Here are some of Medawar’s key insights from the book. #AmazonScience amzn.to/3kbK0vm
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As @SIGIRConf approaches, Barbara Poblete, Amazon Visiting Academic and @uchile computer science professor, discusses her role on the conference's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and her work on hate speech and earthquake detection. #SIGIR2021 amzn.to/3wmb0e9
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“DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services.” @Werner, CTO at Amazon, on the launch of @dynamodb. Learn more about the history of the service: amazon.science/latest-news/a… #CloudComputing #MachineLearning
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Today, Amazon took three steps toward letting people interact with voice AI systems in their native tongues, announcing (1) a 51-language parallel dataset (MASSIVE), (2) a new competition using that dataset (MMNLU), and (3) a related workshop at EMNLP '22. amzn.to/3MlBOn9
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Learn how @DomenicoGiannon, a principal economist in Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies team, is using his expertise in time series econometrics to forecast aggregate demand. #Economics #Forecasting #SupplyChain amazon.science/working-at-am…
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Amazon Research Award recipient and @MIT professor Russ Tedrake uses a combination of self-supervised learning and classic control theory to teach robots how to pick up objects. #AmazonResearchAwards #Robotics amazon.science/research-awar…
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Meet Sparrow. Amazon’s new intelligent robotic system that streamlines the fulfillment process by moving individual products before they get packaged, announced today at our #DeliveringTheFuture event: amazon.science/research-area…
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Amazon researchers and engineers gathered for the annual Amazon Formal Reasoning Enthusiasts (FReE) workshop to discuss formal methods tools that improve quality of Amazon software and customer experience. 🙌
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To celebrate DynamoDB’s 10th anniversary, @awscloud engineers reflect on principles they developed to scale to hundreds of thousands of customers, like prioritizing predictability over efficiency, adapting data partitioning to traffic, & continuous verification. #CloudComputing
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Classes from Amazon's Machine Learning University (MLU), previously only available to employees, are now available to the public via on-demand videos. Learn more: amazon.science/latest-news/m… #AmazonScience #MachineLearning
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Today, Amazon and @USCViterbi announced they're creating a joint research center focused on machine learning privacy, security and trustworthiness. The Center for Secure and Trusted ML will be housed at USC. #AmazonScience #USC #InternationalDataPrivacyDay amazon.science/academic-enga…
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Earlier this month Amazon hosted its 9th internal machine learning conference, which featured presentations from prominent computer science professors Joshua Bengio, Rama Chellappa, @tdietterich, Mirella Lapata, and @chrmanning. Watch the videos. #ML amzn.to/3CgaIcM
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The award-winning paper “Temporal-contextual recommendation in real-time” by @awscloud researchers from the 2020 @kdd_news conference. The technology described is one of the core algorithms underlying the Amazon Personalize service. #AmazonScience #KDD2020 amazon.science/blog/amazon-r…
ALT Temporal-contextual recommendation in real-time
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Congrats to @zoox for marking the first time in history a purpose-built autonomous robotaxi without traditional driving controls carried passengers on open public roads. Learn how it predicts trajectories of moving objects as far as 8 seconds into the future. #ThisIsZoox
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.@RanjitJhala, an Amazon Scholar and professor of computer science engineering at @UCSanDiego, was named a 2021 ACM Fellow by @TheOfficialACM for his “contributions to software verification.” #AutomatedReasoning #AmazonScholars #UCSanDiego amazon.science/latest-news/a…
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.@eugeneyan is an Amazon applied scientist, but in the world of machine learning he might be best known for his writing. Learn what motivated him to start, how he’s made his personal site a success, and his tips for others who want to write about science. amzn.to/3C0YEwh
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Introducing Chronos-2: a foundation model that enables forecasting with an arbitrary number of dimensions in a zero-shot manner, outperforming existing time series foundation models by a substantial margin: amzn.to/4nkHQqp
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How do AI agents actually work? Amazon VP @MarcJBrooker breaks down the core components of agentic systems and @awscloud's new Bedrock AgentCore framework: amazon.science/blog/demystif…
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Congratulations to the 101 recipients of the 2020 #AmazonResearchAwards, who represent 59 universities in 13 countries. Each award supports the work of one to two graduate or postdoctoral students for one year, under the supervision of a faculty member. amzn.to/ara2020
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Free online courses from Amazon's Machine Learning University are now available to the public via on-demand videos.
Learn more: amazon.science/latest-news/m…
#AmazonScience #MachineLearning #ML #NLP
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The recipients, representing 51 universities in 15 countries, will have access to Amazon public datasets, AWS AI/ML services and tools, and more. Congrats to the 99 awardees! #AmazonResearchAwards amazon.science/research-awar…
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We're excited to announce the 74 award recipients of the #AmazonResearchAwards' Fall 2021 cycle, representing 51 universities in 17 countries. The awards provide unrestricted funds to academic researchers investigating topics across a number of disciplines. Meet the recipients.
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Representing 24 universities in 7 countries, the spring 2022 recipients of the #AmazonResearchAwards will receive funds to pursue their proposals across various research areas.
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Representing 54 universities in 14 countries, the #AmazonResearchAwards recipients will have access to more than 300 Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools. Congrats to the fall 2022 awardees!
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Time can seem to slow during an MRI scan. #AmazonResearchAward recipient Jonathan Tamir is developing #machinelearning methods to shorten exam times and extract more data from this essential — but often uncomfortable — imaging process. Find out how. amazon.science/research-awar…
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As of today, Amazon's Machine Learning University (MLU) online courses are available to the public via on-demand video: amazon.science/latest-news/m… #AmazonScience #MachineLearning #ML
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.@awscloud has open-sourced a set of tools (DGL, the Deep Graph Library) for building and analyzing knowledge graphs, and at @sigir2020, AWS researchers described parallel-processing optimizations for embedding huge knowledge graphs with DGL amazon.science/blog/amazons-… #AmazonScience
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Congratulations to the 51 award recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards, who represent 39 universities in 10 countries. View the full list and find out how to be added to the 2020 Call For Proposal distribution list here: amazon.science/blog/recipien… #AmazonResearchAwards
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Learn why @blarodlo13, a professor of computational medicine at the @UniofOxford, is convinced that computer modeling and simulation of the heart are poised to trigger major breakthroughs for cardiology patients. #AmazonScience #HealthScience amzn.to/3lT9azI
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Amazon researchers have developed a system, called DataTuner, that can convert structured data — such as tables and knowledge graphs — into fluent and semantically faithful text. DataTuner can be downloaded free from @github. #AmazonScience amzn.to/2Rgsb24
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Amazon Nova Act is now available without a waitlist! Create your API key instantly and start experimenting right away: nova.amazon.com/act
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The @amazonbooks team just released their list of 2022 Best Books of the Year—So Far.
We’ll be counting down the top 20 general-interest science books of 2022. 📚⬇️
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Today, Amazon launched @alexa99's new Live Translation feature, which allows individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other, with Alexa acting as an interpreter and translating both sides of the conversation. #AmazonScience amazon.science/blog/how-alex…
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De'Aira Bryant, who has done two internships at Amazon under Nashlie Sephus, is a PhD student at @GeorgiaTech focusing on the application of robotics in health care and rehabilitation. Find out how she's reaching students from underrepresented backgrounds. amazon.science/working-at-am…
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The emphasis of the book Dive into Deep Learning by @awscloud scientists Mu Li, @astonzhangAZ, @zacharylipton & @smolix is on learning by doing. Available on GitHub, it teaches the ideas, theory and code that powers deep learning: amazon.science/latest-news/a… #AmazonScience #AWS #DL
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Today, Amazon announced #Astro, a household robot with home monitoring, and @alexa99. The scientists behind Astro explain how its Intelligent Motion system combines perception, mapping, and real-time planning to make Astro's motion intuitive and graceful. amzn.to/39Kg3w9
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Amazon to sponsor Howard University summer program aimed at increasing pipeline of minority economists: amazon.science/latest-news/a…
#AmazonScience #HowardForward #EconTwitter
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Introducing nova.amazon.com, an easier way to experience understanding, content generation, and agentic models from Amazon. #AmazonNova
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🎓 Amazon launches AI PhD Fellowship program, providing $68 million over two years to fund PhD students at 9 universities pursuing research in machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing. #AmazonAIFellowship amzn.to/4o6uPlu
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For the first time, the largest genomic sequencing repository in the Americas, the @NIH Sequence Read Archive (SRA), will be natively accessible via @awscloud through the Open Data Sponsorship Program. #AmazonScience amazon.science/latest-news/a…
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Congratulations to Amazon Scholar and @UChicago professor Liang Jiang for being the recipient of the 2022 @APSphysics Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing. #QuantumTech #AmazonScience amzn.to/3jrJmbY
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Used by more than 400 universities worldwide, @D2L_ai is the first of its kind to provide an implementation of Google JAX. The update also contains three new chapters: reinforcement learning, Gaussian processes, and hyperparameter optimization. #DeepLearning
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As @ACMRecSys approaches, Amazon Scholar Pablo Castells identifies 3 intriguing trends in recommender system research: work on evaluation, bias & algorithms. In some cases, he says, classical techniques still have advantages over deep learning. #RecSys2021 amazon.science/blog/amazon-a…
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Amazon and @virginia_tech today announced the Amazon – Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning. The initiative will be led by @VTEngineering and directed by Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering @profnaren. #VirginiaTech amazon.science/academic-enga…
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The Force is strong with Astro. On #MayThe4th, learn how it uses deep-learning algorithms to mimic scenarios it may face in a customer’s home, like scene layouts, lighting and perspective changes, occlusions, object movements, and decorations. 🤖
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The @amazonbooks team released their list of 2022 Best Books of the Year. 📚 Explore the year’s best general-interest science books of 2022: amzn.to/best-science-books-2… 🧵⬇️
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🚀 Amazon has released the training code for Chronos, a family of pretrained models for #timeseries forecasting, built on a language model architecture and trained with billions of tokenized time series observations to provide accurate zero-shot forecasts. amzn.to/3yhabu3
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Learn about a new AI model from Amazon scientists that generates images from text, which could help refine customer discovery query results for billions of products: bit.ly/2x4jyxt #AmazonScience
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Updates to the @PrimeVideo app need to work on 8,000+ different devices. Alexandru Ene explains how the team managed the trade-off between performance and ease of update and, with the move to WebAssembly, increased speed & stability. #PrimeVideo amazon.science/blog/how-prim…
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In January, the NFL’s @NextGenStats announced its new QB passing score metric, which addressed the inconsistency across plays, games, weeks, and seasons found in previous scores. Learn how utilizing a Spliced Binned-Pareto distribution method led to the improved passing metric.
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Nadia Carlsten is head of product at the @awscloud Center for Quantum Computing, but her path into quantum was “counterintuitive.” Find out how she ended up in quantum, and how she & her team are working to achieve the holy grail of quantum computing. #AWS amazon.science/working-at-am…
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Congrats to the winning team of the #AlexaPrize SimBot Challenge! 🎉 The @UMichCSE team earned $500,000 for their performance in the challenge, which focused on advancing next-generation virtual assistants that help humans complete real-world tasks. #ConvAI
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Subscribe to our monthly newsletter today and get an in-depth look at the groundbreaking research and applied science being conducted at Amazon, including the scientists and scholars doing that work, and much more! #AmazonScience amzn.to/tw-newsletter
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Congrats to the recently-selected Amazon ML Fellows: @sunjiao123sun_, @sinashaham, @GeYunhao of @USCViterbi. The fellowship provides funding through the USC + Amazon Center and mentorship by Amazon scientists. Learn about the recipients and their research. #MachineLearning #AI
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On May 28 we'll be hosting a live Q&A with @MarcJBrooker, senior principal engineer at @awscloud, about Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology. He'll explain why it was built and how it's used inside AWS Lambda. Register here: amazon.science/videos-webina… #AmazonScience
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Today, Amazon announced its Trusted AI Challenge, which involves university students competing to securely advance large language models (LLMs) that code, and where $700,000 in cash prizes will be allocated across the top four performing teams. Learn more about the challenge and how to apply: amazon.science/trusted-ai-ch… #ResponsibleAI #GenAI
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In 2020, Amazon scientists @astonzhangAZ @zacharylipton @mli65 and @smolix released @D2L_ai, an interactive, open source book which teaches the ideas, mathematical theory, and code that powers #deeplearning, all through a unified medium. Learn more about the book and its updates.
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To make model training scale efficiently on hundreds of GPUs in the cloud, @awscloud scientists developed the distributed-training framework MiCS, which achieves near-linear scaling when used to train multibillion-parameter models in the public cloud. #AWS amazon.science/blog/near-lin…
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A year after 'The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design' was released, we asked @mkearnsupenn and @Aaroth what the events of the past year have revealed when it comes to machine learning ethics. #AmazonScholars amazon.science/latest-news/a…
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Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge announced its top three university teams—which addresses AI challenges through the fusion of multiple AI techniques. Learn more about the winning work from teams' from @UofGlasgow, @FCTNOVA, and @OhioState. #AlexaPrize
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Goodbye to the barcode? Using multimodal identification, Amazon researchers can extract the appearance and dimensions of an item from an image of that item to automate identification. #Robotics #ComputerVision
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Today, @amazonbooks unveiled the results for the Best Books of the Year So Far, which includes a Top 20 science category. Congrats to @WalterIsaacson on The Code Breaker, which editors picked as the best science book of the year so far. #AmazonScience amzn.to/3v96MG6
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In 2017, researchers Grant Van Horn and @oisinmacaodha began holding competitions with @inaturalist data at @CVPR. Today, both the competition and iNaturalist are part of Open Data on AWS — but the challenge is no less daunting. #AmazonScience #CVPR2021 amzn.to/39Kw7yj
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Jesse Levinson, CTO of @zoox, has been in in the self-driving space a long time, going back to when he developed algorithms for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. We talked to him about why he’s excited about Zoox’s robotaxi fleet. #AmazonScience amzn.to/35xjSmx
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Developers @bondad and @katybow built an @alexa99 skill which allows anyone to browse the @artinstitutechi collection — by voice. Learn how they did it, and why Alexa Conversations is "the future of authoring spoken dialog experiences." #VoiceFirst #VUX amzn.to/artmuseum
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Amazon's machine learning leader for startups @alliekmiller once told @AdamMGrant she wanted to work in AI. His advice led her to @awscloud, and a role she cherishes. Learn how she expands access to AI, and what she says must happen to increase diversity. amzn.to/3jdWp1b
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Announced today at @AWSreInvent: AWS CodeWhisperer, which takes software developers' comments and suggests code for implementing them, has added support for two new programming languages. ⬇️ #MachineLearning
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Congrats to Amazon principal applied scientist Matthias Seeger and coauthors @niranjan628496 @ShamKakade6 @arkrause on their @icmlconf test of time award for a paper from 10yrs ago that's had a significant impact within the machine learning field amazon.science/latest-news/a… #ICML2020
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.@HowardU recently announced it will host #AEASP. We talked to Omari Swinton, chair of Howard's Department of Economics; Rhonda V. Sharpe, founder of @WISERPolicy; and Pat Bajari, Amazon’s chief economist, about why economics struggles with diversity. amazon.science/latest-news/a…
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Looking for some holiday gift-giving ideas? The editors from @AmazonBooks have selected the year’s Top 20 general interest science books, including 'The Code Breaker' by @WalterIsaacson, which topped the list. #AmazonBooks #SciComm amazon.science/latest-news/a…
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Call for proposals for the 2020 Amazon Research Awards has been issued. Deadline for submissions is Oct 11. CFP areas include:
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5. Robotics
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Amazon papers were runners-up for two best-paper awards at @RealAAAI: one examines how to construct recommendation algorithms when the search space is massive, the other how to perform natural-language searches on the COVID-19 literature. #AAAI2021 amzn.to/2Pq2rzc
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