When you ask Alexa have a question – say to buy more peanut butter – you probably have a specific idea in mind. As if playing a game of 20 questions, Alexa is trying to meet your request in as few turns as possible and pinpoining the context and specific. Last summer, as an intern … Read more
Building quality software tends to follow a well -known routine for most developers. You type code on your computer with an integrated development environment (idea), and to check for any security errors, upload it to a central restitor and run a security scan. The results appear on dashboard in your web browser, separate from idea. … Read more
When customers shop at the Amazon store and learn that a product is sold out, how likely are they to replace it with a similar product from another brand? What are the fastest, most fuel -efficient ways to deliver orders to customers? If we claim to work on problems in the real world, it is … Read more
With one of the big, most miscellaneous, most distributed work forces in the world, Amazon faces a unique HR challenge: how to deliver a work experience that each employee’s needs need. Jessie Handbury, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Amazon visits academically (AVA), helps Amazon’s people, experience and technology central science … Read more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps automate and ease a lot of what people do online, from managing customer data to scientific research. So it is only appropriate that leaders of AWS Cloud Resources (eg Devops engineers) should get an assist from machine learning on some of their most common tasks. In his role as used … Read more
“I work in robotics and artificial intelligence. We build robots that will help the world.” As introductions – or elevator spaces – go, it is particularly strong. This is how Nia Jetter, senior main technologist for Amazon, answers technology robotics, the question: What do you do? Jetter is an engineer who has been recognized throughout … Read more
For many of us, the use of our voices to interact with computers, phones and other devices is a relatively new experience made possible by services such as Amazon’s Alexa. But it’s old hat for Luu Tra. An Amazon Senior Main Engineer, Tran has spoken to computers for more than three decades. Tran a Uber-early … Read more
It is fair for Thomas Hoe to describe his career path as “super not -linear”. After all, his career track is turned from award-winning video player (before it really was one thing), to computer science students, for chef in Michelin-star restaurants, to finance Ph.D. Before, he launched Amazon Stores’ first European economic science team. Thomas … Read more