Toward Supporting Quality Alt Text in Computing Publications

While researchers have examined alternative (alt) text for social media and news contexts, few have studied the status and challenges for authoring alt text of figures in computing-related publications. These figures are distinct, often conveying dense visual information, and may necessitate unique accessibility solutions. Accordingly, we explored how to support authors in creating alt text …

From principles to actions: building a holistic approach to AI governance

Today AI permeates every aspect of business function. Whether it be financial services, employee hiring, customer service management or healthcare administration, AI is increasingly powering critical workflows across all industries. But with greater AI adoption comes greater challenges. In the marketplace we have seen numerous missteps involving inaccurate outcomes, unfair recommendations, and other unwanted consequences. …

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Quantization for Fast and Environmentally Sustainable Reinforcement Learning

Posted by Srivatsan Krishnan, Student Researcher, and Aleksandra Faust, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Deep reinforcement learning (RL) continues to make great strides in solving real-world sequential decision-making problems such as balloon navigation, nuclear physics, robotics, and games. Despite its promise, one of its limiting factors is long training times. While the …

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Index your Dropbox content using the Dropbox connector for Amazon Kendra

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and simple-to-use intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). Amazon Kendra offers a suite of data source connectors to simplify the process of ingesting and indexing your content, wherever it resides. Valuable data in organizations is stored in both structured and unstructured repositories. An enterprise search solution should …

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Provision and manage ML environments with Amazon SageMaker Canvas using AWS CDK and AWS Service Catalog

The proliferation of machine learning (ML) across a wide range of use cases is becoming prevalent in every industry. However, this outpaces the increase in the number of ML practitioners who have traditionally been responsible for implementing these technical solutions to realize business outcomes. In today’s enterprise, there is a need for machine learning to …

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New features for Amazon SageMaker Pipelines and the Amazon SageMaker SDK

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines allows data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to automate training workflows, which helps you create a repeatable process to orchestrate model development steps for rapid experimentation and model retraining. You can automate the entire model build workflow, including data preparation, feature engineering, model training, model tuning, and model validation, and catalog …

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Reduce the time taken to deploy your models to Amazon SageMaker for testing

Data scientists often train their models locally and look for a proper hosting service to deploy their models. Unfortunately, there’s no one set mechanism or guide to deploying pre-trained models to the cloud. In this post, we look at deploying trained models to Amazon SageMaker hosting to reduce your deployment time. SageMaker is a fully …

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How Volkswagen and Google Cloud are using machine learning to design more energy-efficient cars

Volkswagen strives to design beautiful, performant, and energy efficient vehicles. This entails an iterative process where designers go through many design drafts, evaluating each, integrating the feedback, and refining.  For example, a vehicle’s drag coefficient—its resistance to air—is one of the most important factors of energy efficiency. Thus, getting estimates of the drag coefficient for …

How Google Cloud and Fitbit are building a better view of health for hospitals, with analytics and insights in the cloud

Great technology gives us new ways of seeing and working with the world. The microscope enabled new scientific understanding. Trains and telegraphs, in different ways, changed the way we think about distance. Today, cloud computing is changing how we can assist in improving human health. When you think of the healthcare system, it historically includes …

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How Palantir Manages Continuous Vulnerability Scanning at Scale

The Challenge Effective vulnerability management is a cornerstone of any established security program. For complex cloud software providers like Palantir, staying on top of vulnerabilities and quickly remediating them is critical to staying ahead of our adversaries. If undetected or unmitigated, vulnerabilities in container images and software dependencies can rapidly become a blind spot that …