Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Last week I spoke at DevIntersection in Las Vegas with Microsoft's Daniel Egan on Cognitive Services. Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of Representational State Transfer (RESTful) intelligent application program interfaces (APIs) that allow systems to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret people’s needs by using natural methods of communication. Developers can use these APIs to…
Philly .NET Code Camp on February 24-25 at Microsoft MTC, Malvern, PA was a great success. Kudos to Bill Wolff and his team, and Mostafa Elzoghbi (Microsoft) for inviting me. Following is the abstract from my talk, and the slide-deck. The slides are composed using Microsoft Cognitive services artifacts. Abstract: The session covers how to use…
STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) Coaching and Mentorship Recognition by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), with the goal to aspire young scientist or engineer.
Getting Started and More with Windows 10 IoT Core w/ Bret Stateham Microsoft has provided operating systems for embedded systems for nearly two decades. With Windows 10, however, we finally have a common kernel of windows that can run on devices from Microcontrollers to phones to tablets to laptops to desktops to servers to Xbox…
Microsoft Research, Microsoft DX and Community has open sourced tons of demos and hands on labs covering Data Science, AppDev, Azure, Cognitive Services, Data Lake, Big Data and much more. This is to equip the community with content to influence. Azure Training Course https://github.com/MSRConnections/Azure-training-course/tree/master/Content Microsoft Imagine https://github.com/MSFTImagine/computerscience Technical Community Content. https://github.com/Microsoft/TechnicalCommunityContent
Microsoft Machine Learning and Data Science Summit promised to connect Big Data engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning practitioners and managers to share best practices, to Dive deep & learn, and to facilitate Think big & execute fast ideas. In my experience, the summit met majority of its goals and it was a great start. Microsoft has graciously made majority…
Jeremy Clark, Microsoft MVP, pluralsight author, and renowned speaker recently spoke to Irvine Programming Meetup, one of the groups I organize with Matthew Mousseau on the topic of Dependency Injection. Following is the recording from his talk. http://www.meetup.com/Irvine-Programming-Meetup/events/231198873/ Abstract: What is Dependency Injection? And why would we want to use it? That's what…
Nuri Halperin, pluralsight author and speaker recently spoke to Irvine Programming Meetup, one of the groups I organize with Matthew Mousseau on the topic of From Story to Document: Modeling Common Business Problems with MongoDB. Following is the recording from his talk. . Abstract: When designing a solution leveraging MongoDB, the entities and business requirements need to be evaluated…
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. -Bill Gates. Chairman, Microsoft I recently had an inquiry from an astronomy-buff friend of mine who wanted to introduce his 3rd and 4th Graders to programming. Following Hanselman's advice of how many…
When designing systems, distributed or otherwise, engineers create applications which can be roughly classified into two major categories: (a) Long running, background processes which require multiple steps / dependencies / workflow items to complete and (b) (mostly) interactive shorter duration programs. In Microsoft application landscape, the earlier category of daemon / majordomo style apps are best served…