Microsoft Weekly Data Science News for April 06, 2018

Here are the latest articles from Microsoft regarding cloud data science products and updates. This week, it covers: new AI training, IoT investments, learning for the deaf with AI, Cosmos DB, Project Roadrunner, and more.

• Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training courses available to the public – The program provides job-ready skills and real-world experience to engineers and others who are looking to improve their skills in AI and data science through a series of online courses that feature hands-on labs and expert instructors. The program is part …[Read More]
• Microsoft will invest $5 billion in IoT. Here’s why. – We’re also getting a look into how both customers and partners overcome the specific challenges of building an IoT solution that harnesses massive amounts of data. Whether they … machine learning, AI, security and privacy. We are committed to helping …[Read More]
• AI technology helps students who are deaf learn – The AI in the Custom Speech Service uses this data to build models for how domain-specific words are pronounced. When a speaker then uses the words, the system recognizes them and displays the text in the real-time transcript. Chris Campbell is an NTID …[Read More]
• A new IP strategy for a new era of shared innovation – This AI-powered system guides surgeons during operations and sends … the statistical programming language used by data science experts around the world. Over 40 percent of the virtual machines running on Azure today use Linux. Some of our existing …[Read More]
• Inventory Optimization Solution in the Azure AI Gallery – This post is co-authored by Dmitry Pechyoni, Senior Data Scientist, Hong Lu and Chenhui Hu … We recently published a cloud-based inventory optimization solution for retail in the Azure AI Gallery. We designed this solution to be flexible, scalable …[Read More]
• Azure Cosmos DB – You can use a spark connector to do Machine Learning and Data Science in Spark using the Spark connector for … and all developers need to focus is on their application logic. Join our Data & AI Partner community call on April 6, where we’ll be …[Read More]
• Like a phone call: XiaoIce, Microsoft’s social chatbot in China, makes breakthrough in natural conversation – Now, Microsoft believes it has created the first technological breakthrough that can allow people to have a conversation with an AI-powered chatbot that is more like that natural experience a person might have when talking on the phone to a friend.[Read More]
• Run your Python script on demand with Azure Container Instances and Azure Logic Apps – An increasing focus has been placed recently on the data science process; a methodology to govern the enterprise-scale effort that goes into the development, deployment and maintenance of data analytics. Data scientists have not been lacking in terms of …[Read More]
• Project Road Runner uses photo-realistic simulation and deep learning to train autonomous driving algorithms – Project Road Runner hopes to make that task more manageable and accessible to the autonomous driving industry, developers, and researchers, by gathering data and training AI through real-world simulation. Simulation provides a means to collect extensive …[Read More]