In this role, you will analyze large amounts of raw information. We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights. In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math, and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. Your goal will be to help our company analyze trends to make better decisions and provide our customers the data they need to meet learning objectives and growth goals for all students.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team is seeking an innovation and results-oriented Software Development Engineer in our Textract team. Amazon Textract (https://aws.amazon.com/textract/) is a new AWS service that launched in Nov. 2018 and provides deep learning-based document image analysis. The engineering team owns the full service stack and solves challenging problems around scaling, efficiency, and reliability to make sure our customers discover content they care about. We are constantly adding new capabilities to the service. The goal is to be the bleeding edge of a highly scalable technology that can analyze billions of images daily and provide rich analytics.

Amazon is taking cashier-less shopping to a whole new level by bringing its Just Walk Out technology to a full-size grocery store for the first time. The world's largest online retail company officially announced on June 15 that it would launch a 25,000 square foot Amazon Fresh branch in Bellevue, Washington. The store, which will open on June 17, marks the company's 14th location in the U.S. Moreover, it will feature the Just Walk Out technology which combines computer vision, artificial intelligence, multiple sensors and cameras to keep track of the items that customers take from store shelves, reported The Verge. Amazon Fresh store customers in Bellevue will be given two checkout options upon entry.

The demand for smartness in embedded systems has been mounting up drastically in the past few years. Embedded system today must address the fundamental challenges introduced by cloud computing and artificial intelligence. KubeEdge [1] is an edge computing framework build on top of Kubernetes [2]. It provides compute resource management, deployment, runtime and operation capabilities on geo-located edge computing resources, from the cloud, which is a natural fit for embedded systems. Here we propose KubeEdge.AI, an edge AI framework on top of KubeEdge. It provides a set of key modules and interfaces: a data handling and processing engine, a concise AI runtime, a decision engine, and a distributed data query interface. KubeEdge.AI will help reduce the burdens for developing specific edge/embedded AI systems and promote edge-cloud coordination and synergy.

Bellevue, Wash., located in the Seattle metro area, is undergoing a citywide review of near-miss incidents involving pedestrians, cyclists and other cars. Using images from its closed circuit video network, as well as high-level analytics and machine learning, the city wants to understand which streets and intersections are the most dangerous, and how they might be made safer. Bellevue is partnering with the group Together for Safer Roads (TSR), which represents a coalition of private-sector companies, including Brisk Synergies, to conduct a comprehensive near-miss study from August to September where roughly half of the city's network of 80 public video cameras will be used to gather some 34,000 hours of footage representing about 21 terabytes of data. The data will be processed by Brisk using artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain insights into "near-miss" incidents. "This is the first network-wide traffic safety monitoring assessment of its kind," said Franz Loewenherz, principal transportation planner for Bellevue.

Scientists have created an AI that can detect obesity from space. The software scans satellite images and predicts how many residents are overweight based on the availability of parks, fast food stores and other buildings in the area. Researchers used deep learning to scan 150,000 high-resolution satellite images from Google Maps in order to identify patterns. They looked at data in six US cities - Bellevue, Seattle, Tacoma, Los Angeles, Memphis, and San Antonio. The team found that features of the built environment explained 64.8 per cent of the variation in obesity between cities.

Steve Marshall is directing the city of Bellevue's efforts to bring a fleet of self-driving vanpools to the region. If it is successful, it could shuttle up to 3,000 commuters along the I-405 corridor from Auburn to Kirkland. Aaron Kunkler/Staff photo As the technology powering self-driving vehicles continues to advance, the cities of Bellevue and Kirkland have a plan to bring a fleet of vans to the Eastside. The CommutePool program was drafted by staff from the two cities, which submitted a grant application to the U.S. Department of Transportation last week asking for $3 million to help fund the $9 million project. Bellevue Transportation Technology Partnership Manager Steve Marshall has been working with large employers in the area to gather support for the electric, self-driving vanpools.

Schedule: 6:00 - 6:30 Mix and mingle 6:30 - 6:40 Announcements 6:40 - 6:50 Lightning Talk 6:50 - 7:30 Talk Night: Jason Kessler 7:30 - 7:40 QA 7:40 - 8:00 More networking Scattertext is a Python library for visualizing how words, phrases, topics and other linguistic units are associated with a category of text. This talk will cover different techniques for visualizing term-associations, visualizing both automatically generated and preexisting topics, and techniques to visualize word embeddings on a two-dimensional scatterplot. We'll work through notebooks which will be available at Source code for the package is hosted on Github at https://github.com/JasonKessler Prior to joining CDK, Jason was the founding data scientist at PlaceIQ and worked as a research scientist for JD Power and Associates. He has published peer-reviewed papers on algorithms and corpora for sentiment and belief analysis, and has sat on program committees and reviewed for several AI and NLP conferences.

The Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13) and the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-13) will be held in Bellevue, Washington at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue Hotel, July 14-18, 2013. The AAAI technical program will consist of the main technical track and four special tracks on AI and the web, cognitive robotics, computational sustainability and AI, and robotics, as well as the continuation of the very successful spotlights track, highlighting significant AI results presented at our sister conferences in the past two years. The AAAI and IAAI programs will also feature a keynote address by Raymond Mooney, entitled Grounded Language Learning, the Robert S. Engelmore Award Lecture by Deborah L. McGuinness (Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute), a joint IAAI/AAAI invited talk by Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University), and invited talks by Kristin P. Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania), Maja Mataric (University of Southern California), Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University), and Lawrence Hunter (University of Colorado). The fourth iteration of the AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances on AI will be collocated with AAAI, and the AAAI program will also include 16 half-day tutorials, 12 workshops, AAAI robotics events, the AAAI Poker Competition, the Video Competition, Student Abstract Posters, the AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, and more! The conference banquet will be held at the Bellevue Art Museum, and other special events are planned, such as a Puzzle Hunt.

With Stephen Hawking opening an AI lab it's only a matter of time before smart robots take over for humans in the factory, on the battlefield, in the supermarket, and behind the counter. There's an old Chinese saying: "If you want to do anything good, easy and fast, you need connections," said Nancy Yang, a spokesperson for the fourth annual Seattle Biz-Tech Summit meeting today in Bellevue, Wash., outside Seattle. "Here in the U.S., we use email and messaging, but the Chinese way, and really for many Asians, is to meet face to face." Tanvi Lad shook off her first game loss and pulled off a rare victory over Rituparna Das in a three-set match and entered the women's singles final of the Manorama-Indian Open National-ranking badminton tournament here on Saturday. Stephen Hawking, the famous scientist who once said intelligent machines could be mankind's biggest threat, opened an artificial intelligence lab in Britain this week to help develop robot surgeons and Terminator-style military droids.