Although there are hundreds of millions of products stored in Amazon fulfillment centers, it’s very rare for customers to report shipped products as damaged. However, Amazon’s...
When the next new infectious disease begins to race around the world, Ryan Tibshirani hopes to have a completely different way to track and forecast its...
On what are known as game days to teams inside Amazon, millions of virtual “customers” log on to the Amazon Store to search for items, browse...
The total amount of data that is created, captured, copied, and consumed globally each year is accelerating rapidly and is forecast to reach 120 zettabytes in...
When customers are shopping on the Amazon Store and learn that a product is out of stock, how likely are they to replace it with a...
When you ask Alexa a question — say, to buy more peanut butter — you probably have a certain idea in mind. As if playing a...
Planet Earth is getting a digital twin. A pair of friends who met during high school in an online forum are now using their PhDs in...
“Alexa, where’s the nearest coffee shop?” In vehicles with Alexa, drivers can pose questions like that — while keeping their eyes on the road and hands...
In Rustan Leino’s ideal world, computer software always works as intended. In the real world, though, he knows that software engineers are people like him —...
Online bidding services were disrupting the auction industry when Pai-Ling Yin started pursuing her PhD in economics in 1997 at Stanford University. She seized on the...