Teaming for Technology

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To advance knowledge in critical next-generation technologies, Amazon has made a substantial gift to UC Santa Barbara. The investment will support graduate student researchers in computer science and in statistics and applied probability, as well as ongoing lectures series in machine learning and data science.

This new research and workforce development effort was catalyzed by Amazon’s office in downtown Santa Barbara, where the Amazon team curates the expert knowledge that allows Alexa’s cloud-based voice service to answer customers’ questions. The company already employs more than 150 in this office and has plans to create an additional 100 jobs over the next few years.

The gift includes underwriting one graduate student fellowship in the Department of Computer Science (CS) and four graduate fellowships in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (PSTAT). It also supported the second annual Responsible Machine Learning Summit recently hosted by UC Santa Barbara’s Center For Responsible Machine Learning.

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Monday, November 23, 2020