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Chat bot Development: Working with Multiple Cognitive Services
Background On a previous project, I was a part of, the client wanted to explore a chatbot application for its employees. The goal was for the chatbot to help increase the office’s productivity. Certain skills would be developed to enable swift access to popular actions such as opening a timesheet, password reset help, etc. The client… Read more »
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Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part Three
This blog is a follow on about Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life. The offering is a collection of AI services with capabilities around speech, vision, search, language, and decision. Azure Personalizer is one of the services in the suit of Azure Cognitive Services, a cloud-based API service… Read more »
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Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part Two
This blog is a follow on about Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life. The offering is a collection of AI services with capabilities around speech, vision, search, language, and decision. In Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part One, we discussed the core concepts and architecture of Azure Personalizer Service,… Read more »
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Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part One
Azure Cognitive Services is Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life, a collection of AI services that currently offer capabilities around speech, vision, search, language, and decision. While these services are easy to integrate and consume in your business applications, they bring together powerful capabilities that apply to numerous use cases. Azure… Read more »
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TriSPUG Meetup: Introduction to AI & Cognitive Services for O365 Devs
Calling all SharePoint users and Office 365 developers! AIS is sponsoring this month's Meetup for the Triangle SharePoint User Group in Morrisville, North Carolina. It's shaping up to be a great one, so RSVP today to claim your spot. About the Session: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are the new buzzwords in the industry. In this session,… Read more »
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About Last Night: #AzureGovMeetup Recap – How to Apply Cognitive Services to Your Agency’s Mission
The emerging technology of cognitive services teaches computers to understand the world as we humans do. Last night's #AzureGovMeetup in DC focused on exactly how the exciting and powerful capabilities of cognitive services can help government agencies better meet their unique missions and improve citizen services and engagement. Our speakers included Justin "Doc" Herman, program lead of Emerging Citizen… Read more »
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Cognitive Surplus in an Enterprise?
What is Cognitive Surplus? In his famous TED talk about Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky shares an incident in Kenya from December of 2007. There was a disputed presidential election that resulted in an outbreak of ethnic violence. A lawyer in Nairobi, Ory Okolloh, began blogging about it on her site, Kenyan Pundit. Shortly after the election… Read more »
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Lessons Learned: Azure Cognitive Service QnA Maker
Recently we integrated Azure QnA Maker Service with SharePoint Search page for one of our DoD Customers so thought to share my experience and lesson learned with broader audiences. Generally, QnA Maker is used when designing a Chatbot, but, according to customer requirements, we integrated with an existing search page, so users do not need… Read more »
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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) Image Detection Demo
In this video, we take a look at using Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)—a unified deep learning toolkit from Microsoft. The demo included in this video was part of our Ignite talk on cloud innovation with Azure Government. We use CNTK for an image detection problem: Identifying objects within the refrigerator. Image detection is a harder class of problem… Read more »
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Ignite 2017: Bring Cloud Innovation to Your Mission/Services with Azure Government
Steve Michelotti and I presented a session on AzureGov last week at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando. It focused on demonstrating the innovative capabilities in AzureGov that are specifically designed to help government agencies with their mission. We dedicated about 80% of the session to live demos. Steve started out with a brief description of AzureGov and… Read more »