Despite some complaints about the virtual teaching method, administrators said e-learning labs were here to stay.
Then education secretary Charles Clarke in 2004 called the prince "old fashioned" after he said the "learning culture" gave people hope beyond their capabilities.
"Under the gun to deliver," Jassy says, "the learnings were magnified". In the end, the experience did nothing less than change the way Amazon thought about development.
"It's a delicate balance and we have to do our learnings," said Kuelper.
That relationship, which Chapman said included reciprocal learnings on both sides, led to this week's investment deal.
Needless to say, e-learning systems are mandatory systems.
Digital data like the kind Netflix and Amazon constantly process stands still, says machine-learning entrepreneur Nagendra Nagaraj.
Some say deep-learning approaches to AI like Google's are starting to look outdated, as companies try to automate decisions about data that's constantly moving and changing.
"It is not, strictly speaking, a language-learning class," said Mr. Slepovitch, 32.
"There has been a number of stunning new results with deep-learning methods," said Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at New York University who did pioneering research in handwriting recognition at Bell Laboratories.
