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Why a 12-year-old forecasting paper has stood the test of time

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By Larry Hardesty
| Amazon Science
At the 2025 meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Amazon Scholar and University of Maryland professor Aravind Srinivasan was one of 30 coauthors from eight institutions to win the conference’s applied-data-science test-of-time award for a 2014 paper titled “‘Beating the news’ with EMBERS: Forecasting civil unrest using open-source indicators”.
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How Amazon’s Vulcan robots use touch to plan and execute motions

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By Larry Hardesty
| Amazon Science
This week, at Amazon’s Delivering the Future symposium in Dortmund, Germany, Amazon announced that its Vulcan robots, which stow items into and pick items from fabric storage pods in Amazon fulfillment centers (FCs), have completed a pilot trial and are ready to move into beta testing. A robot-mounted fabric storage pod in an Amazon fulfillment center. Products in the pod bins are held in place by semi-transparent elastic bands.
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Economics Nobelist on causal inference

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By Larry Hardesty
| Amazon Science
Since 2013, Amazon has held an annual internal conference, the Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC), where machine learning practitioners from around the company come together to share their work, teach and learn new techniques, and discuss best practices. At the third AMLC, in 2015, Guido Imbens, a professor of economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, gave a popular tutorial on causality and machine learning.
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