AAAI: Fast Engineering and Reasoning in the Spotlight

AAAI: Fast Engineering and Reasoning in the Spotlight

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) received about 9,000 paper submissions this year, requiring a relatively large program committee with two program chairs and four associate program chairs. Kai-Wei Chang, associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles; an Amazon Visiting Academic in … Read more

Billions wasted on inadequate asylum hotels thanks to Home Office mismanagement, major report finds

Billions wasted on inadequate asylum hotels thanks to Home Office mismanagement, major report finds

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our journalists around the world Sign up for our free Morning Headlines email Sign up for our free Morning Headlines email Billions of pounds have been wasted on asylum hotel contracts thanks to mismanagement and incompetence, a major report has found. Ministers and civil servants have … Read more

On a mission to demystify artificial intelligence

On a mission to demystify artificial intelligence

Parmida Beigi’s career has touched many facets of machine learning and data science. From her PhD research in computer vision and time series forecasting to her work in Alexa AI end-to-end systems. Today, Beigi pursues—among other things—speech recognition and natural language processing initiatives to help Amazon’s Alexa customers through her work on the local info … Read more

Fabio Wardley wanted to fight Oleksandr Usyk ‘in my garden’ after stopping Parker

Fabio Wardley wanted to fight Oleksandr Usyk 'in my garden' after stopping Parker

Sign up for the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter and gain behind-the-scenes access and unrivaled insight Sign up for the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter Sign up for the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter Fabio Wardley vowed to keep “riding the wave” and insisted he will fight undisputed world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in his … Read more

Pai-Ling Yin brings an academic’s lens to the study of buying and selling at Amazon

Pai-Ling Yin brings an academic's lens to the study of buying and selling at Amazon

Online bidding services disrupted the auction industry when Pai-Ling Yin began pursuing her Ph.D. in Economics in 1997 at Stanford University. She seized the data these services generate to study and understand the new economy emerging from this industry in transition. “The Internet is accelerating and scaling up transactions,” Yin said. “All these auctions were … Read more

LA’s mayor chooses a new fire chief to fill the void left by the most devastating wildfire in the city’s history

LA's mayor chooses a new fire chief to fill the void left by the most devastating wildfire in the city's history

Sign up for our latest news emails to get free breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox Sign up for our free newsletters Sign up for our free newsletters Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has chosen a 30-year fire department veteran as the new fire chief months after she ousted the former chief over … Read more

Amazon and Howard University announce academic collaboration

Amazon and Howard University announce academic collaboration

In an ongoing effort to create lasting pipelines of diverse scientific talent and differentiated research, Amazon today announced a collaboration with Howard University, a historically black college or university (HBCU) located in Washington, DC. Founded in 1867, Howard is a research university that includes 14 schools and colleges. As part of the collaboration, which will … Read more

Jack Smith Suggests Public Testimony to Fight Trump Investigation ‘Mischaracterizations’

Jack Smith Suggests Public Testimony to Fight Trump Investigation 'Mischaracterizations'

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led several high-profile criminal investigations into Donald Trump, has asked congressional leaders to allow him to testify openly … Read more

A user-controllable framework that unifies style transfer methods

A user-controllable framework that unifies style transfer methods

Neural style transfer is the use of neural networks to transfer the style of an input image – e.g. a famous painting – to another input image – e.g. a backyard photograph. Researchers have proposed a variety of techniques for performing style transfer, but which one works best? There is no right answer to that … Read more