GUEST POST from Greg Satell Probably the biggest myth about innovation is that it’s about ideas. It’s not. It’s about solving problems. The truth is that nobody cares about what ideas you have, they care about the problems you can solve for them. So don’t worry about coming up w...
He is a recipient of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Early Career Award 2021, and winner of the Amazon Research Awards 2019, of the Solution Award 2019 (MECSPE2019), of the KUKA Innovation Award 2018, of the WeRob best poster award 2018, and of the best student paper ...
The documentary Human Nature, which is available on Amazon Prime, offers an accessible, accurate explanation of Crispr, the molecular biology discovery that gives scientists a way to correct and cure genetic diseases, among other potential uses, but acting like molecular scissors to cut out and ...
6. Amazonshowed up on their list because their employees (or agents) began engaging in a scam where one-time passwords (OTP) were said by delivery drivers not to be working and so they wouldn’t deliver the item, but then the item showed as delivered in Amazon’s systems and so people...
2016 Letter to Amazon Shareholders April 12, 2017 “Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?” That’s a question I just got at our most recent all-hands meeting. I’ve been reminding people that it’s Day 1 for a couple of decades. I work in an Amazon building named Day 1, and when ...
Case study 1: Amazon Amazon is an example of an organization that has faced significant disruption and learned to adapt accordingly. Founder Jeff Bezos had to make strategic decisions to change the company’s structure in order to remain competitive and continue to grow. He changed the organizatio...
The feature that sets the human breast apart is that in relation to the size of the body, there is no other species that retains a breast in such a swollen state. Cattle teats can be proportionately larger, but only so long as the cow is lactating; the same is true of many other ...
Similarly, what was once science fiction has become science fact, although sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. Amazon’s much publicised plan for parcel- delivery drones is a good example. Was this just smart PR or could it actually happen? If enough people want it to happen, it...
Li found thousands of workers on Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform where people around the world complete small tasks for cheap. The resulting annotated dataset, called ImageNet, enabled breakthroughs in machine learning that revitalized the field and ushered in...
(Sugiyama et al.2020, p. 11). Knowledge about domestication is summarized by Stahl (2008) who notes that possible centers of domestication may include the southern Caribbean, Paraguay, the Gran Chaco, and/or possibly the middle and lower Amazon. Domestication was aided by the Muscovy’s ...