Abstract:

Amazon’s core business is retail and e-commerce. With Amazon Web Services, the company is now also a leader in cloud computing and storage, and it recently launched several devices such as the Kindle Fire tablet and the Fire Phone. The massive data sets collected throughout the company are creating a wide range of opportunities for machine learning and data science. Amazon applications traditionally included recommender systems and search. Now, we also tackle problems in computer vision, natural language processing and robotics. In this talk, I will provide an overview of how we apply machine learning to our problems and discuss some of the challenges we are facing with very large data sets and models.