Amazon Research Awards
Amazon has announced the winners of the Amazon Research Awards (ARA) in 2017.
The ARA programme supports independent external research in the fields of computer science and related topics including machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and natural language processing.
In a statement issued yesterday, Amazon said that more than 800 research groups, universities and scientific institutions from North America and Europe took part in the open call for proposals. Out of all these, 49 projects will now be supported with the Amazon Research Awards with up to $80,000 per project.
In the robotics, sphere, a team led by Sven Koenig, professor in computer science at the University of Southern California, will study how “a high number of robots find their paths efficiently and effectively in highly filled spaces for warehouse automation”.
The output of the funded projects will be made publicly available both in the form of academic publications and open source code contributions.
The full list of winners with details on their projects is available on the ARA website: https://ara.amazon-ml.com/recipients/#2017.
