Amazon beefs up machine learning presence in UK with new team of researchers

Amazon is taking on a new machine learning team, to operate out of Cambridge, UK, according to a Facebook post spotted by reporter Jack Clark. Neil Lawrence, a professor of machine learning and computational biology at the University of Sheffield, announced to his Facebook followers that he and his team of students will be joining the Seattle tech titan. Ralf Herbrich, Amazon's Director of Machine Learning Science, said that Lawrence's team will partner with his operation in Berlin, in a comment on the Facebook thread. Herbrich's team focuses on "Forecasting, Content Linkage, Scalable Machine Learning Services and Vision-Assisted Technologies," which may offer a glimpse into the kind of work that the new UK team will be doing. Both Herbrich and Lawrence previously worked for the Seattle-area's other tech titan, Microsoft.