Tempus Fugit! Microsoft Build Day 2 is over and today is the final day of the event. Here is my agenda Microsoft Build - Microsoft Build_ My Conference and this is Build Live where you can stream, see announcement and watch the missed sessions. You can also catch up on AI news from Microsoft’s Build and read up on why Harry Shum Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research thinks Azure is the best cloud for AI.
The day started with exciting announcements around 'digital assistant cohabitation' by Joe Bilfiore on summary of how Microsoft 365 empowers developers to build intelligent apps and Future of Meetings With AI Device Prototype for Identification, Transcription, and More
Got a chance to see the celebrity speaker Saqib Shaikh, Tech Lead at Microsoft - Seeing AI. who is using technology to build a more inclusive world. Tech Lead for Seeing AI.
Followed by a whirlwind tour of Building Custom AI Models on Azure using TensorFlow and Keras with Paige Bailey DynamicWebPaige’ which covered concepts from decision trees to boosting to Gradient Descent, Data Science Virtual Machine, Azure Notebook, tensorboard, explainability of #NeuralNetworks, caffe model zoo with good level of details. Not sure how she did it, probably by speaking really fast.
Here is the repository Paige used for her talk. Cool stuff.
https://notebooks.azure.com/dynamicwebpaige/libraries/mvpsummit-1
Next up was a very enlightening Quantum Computing talk with the title 'Empowering the quantum revolution with Q#" by Dr. Julie Love, Director of Microsoft #QuantumComputing and John Azariah @johnazariah Principal Software Engineer Microsoft Quantum Development Kit and Q# coding language.
Q# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/libraries/algorithms?view=qsharp-preview
PostQuantumCrypto - https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/documents/pqcrypto-2016-presentation.pdf …
Also had a chance to catch up with Dr. Sarah Kaiser to talk about quantum key distribution
BTW dear reader, What's your take on Gil Kalai's argument Against Quantum Computers https://www.quantamagazine.org/gil-kalais-argument-against-quantum-computers-20180207/
Then I checked out AI + IoT: building, deploying, and managing you custom AI on the edge, Deep learning at scale in Azure; unfortunaely, Building a serverless intelligent license plate recognition system lab didn't quite work.
Few other related talks and notes below.
Qualcomm and Microsoft partner to create vision AI developer kit
Project Personality Chat for Bot Developers
Secure your Cloud Resources with Azure with Kelly Anderson
Learn how Azure provides a secure foundation to host your infrastructure, applications, and data in the cloud. Also learn about the built-in security controls Azure provides to help you protect your data and intelligent insights Microsoft shares to help you keep pace with real-time threats.
