All Things Microsoft AI

O’Reilly Radar presents a day of data and AI that will showcase what’s new, what’s important, and what’s coming in the field. It’s free and open to the public. The event is happening October 14 and again on October 21.  It's free, but registration is required. RSVP here for October 14 , 7:00am–10:30am PT / 10:00am–1:30pm ET RSVP here for October 21 , 8:30am–12:00pm IST / 2:00pm–5:30pm AET  

Virtual User Group Meetings Aug 27: Cleveland OWASP ( https://www.meetup.com/owasp-cleveland-group / ) Sep 7: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Sep 15: Hudson CodeCraft ( https://www.meetup.com/hudson-codecraft/ ) Sep 16 : GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Sep 23: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )  Sep 27: Akron AITP User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/AkronAITP/events/ )   Virtual Conferences Sep 15-17: Music City Tech ( https://musiccitytech.com / ) Oct 29-31: Azure Community Conference ( https://azconf.dev/ ) Nov 8-12: PASS Data Community Summit ( https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/ )  

SQLServerCentral.com is a well known web site for knowledge sharing on all things SQL Server related, as well as other DB technologies.  It’s a community driven web site that publishes a daily newsletter with articles from their contributors, as well as contributors on other web sites.  Since data is the basis for machine learning and AI, the newsletter also started to cover various AI related topics.  Listed below are a few articles from July 31 st newsletter.   AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services   ML{.NET} Introduction Machine Learning (ML) has come from a buzzword that is nice to have in your application to a must-have feature that works and adds value. Data scientists develop ML models in various ML Frameworks like TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Azure ML, etc. Before ML.NET became available to all developers, adding the ML functionality to .NET applications required knowledge i...

“Custom Neural Voices” is a part of Microsoft’s Cognitive Services suite of technologies.  It allows users to develop highly realistic, humanlike voices by using Microsoft's groundbreaking neural text-to-speech technology. A user will simply record audio samples and then upload training data. Once the voice is created, it can be used in applications for Text-to-Speech or Voice Assistant.   In addition, once the voice is created, it can be used to speak fluently in 13 other languages: German (Germany) English (Australia) English (Canada) English (Canada) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (Mexico) French (Canada) French (France) Italian (Italy) Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Portuguese (Brazil) Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)   This will provide developers the ability to give their application a voice and persona that can be applied to 13 different languages/dialects.  Global companies such as  BBC, Swisscom,  AT&T and Duolingo hav...

Virtual User Group Meetings Aug 3: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Aug 18: Hudson CodeCraft ( https://www.meetup.com/hudson-codecraft/ ) Aug 19 : GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Aug 26: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Jul 29: Dot Net Conf ( https://focus.dotnetconf.net / ) Jul 30: CincyDeliver ( http://www.cincydeliver.org / )   Aug 18-20: Code PaLOUsa ( http://www.codepalousa.com / )  Aug 19-20: JavaScript & Friends Conference ( https://www.javascriptandfriends.com/ ) Oct 29-31: Azure Community Conference ( https://azconf.dev / ) Nov 8-12: PASS Data Community Summit ( https://passdatacommunitysummit.com / )  

Virtual User Group Meetings Jun 25: OWASP Cleveland ( https://www.meetup.com/owasp-cleveland-group/events/277983962 / ) Jul 6: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Jul 15: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Jul 21: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Jul 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Jun 25: Global Azure Data & AI Fest ( https://aka.ms/june2021-globalazuredataandaifest ) Jul 30: CincyDeliver ( http://www.cincydeliver.org/ ) Aug 18-20: Code PaLOUsa ( http://www.codepalousa.com/ )  

Virtual User Group Meetings Jun 1: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Jun 3: Twin Cities .Net UG ( https://www.meetup.com/tcdnug/events/278422491/ ) Jun 16: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Jun 17: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Jun 24: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Jun 17: BlazorDay ( https://blazorday.net/ ) Jun 25: Global Azure Data & AI Fest ( https://aka.ms/june2021-globalazuredataandaifest )

Virtual User Group Meetings May 4: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    May 19: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) May 20: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) May 27: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference ( https://aiconf.education/ ) May 4: MDC ( https://mndevconf.com/ ) May 7: Stir Trek ( https://stirtrek.com/ ) May 10: SQL Day Poland ( https://sqlday.pl/en/ )  

The Global AI Night is a an online community event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure.  For one night, you will get to join various speakers as they share their experience with AI features in Azure.  The event is free of charge, virtual, and open to all. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20 th  4-9 PM EST.  Not sure if you should register?  Here are the top 5 reasons why you should!   Interact with AI experts actively working in the field The event will speakers from around the US and the world.  These are professionals actively working in the AI field.  Not only will they share their experience, but you can interact with them directly during the session.  Despite the online presentation, speakers and organizers strive to make it as much of a roundtable discussion as much as possible.  This means you can ask questions at any time, eit...

Bots have been available to developers and consumers alike for many years.  They have been used in many facets of everyday life that many times we don’t even realize.  The intelligence behind these has continued to become more sophisticated and specialized for specific business sectors.  In addition, Microsoft has made the bot development experience very easy and straightforward for developers.    Continuing in the path of specialization and ease of creation, Microsoft has a developed a Health Bot, with strict focus on health care.  It’s backed by a pre-trained Machine Learning model with focus on the healthcare terminology.  This empowers developers to quickly build and deploy AI-powered conversational bots.  In addition, the bot service follows industry compliance requirements and HIPAA standards.  These bots can be used in any healthcare related environment to assess a potential sickness of a patient, inquire about...

The Global AI Night is a an online community event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure.  For one night, you will get to join various speakers as they share their experience with AI features in Azure.  The event is free of charge, virtual, and open to all. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20th 4PM-9 PM EST and it will be virtual.   To learn more about this event, please visit https://globalai.community/global-ai-night-april-2021/usa-cleveland   If you’re interested in sharing your AI story, feel free to submit your presentation at https://sessionize.com/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland/   Join us for a night of AI and expand your skill set.  

Virtual User Group Meetings Apr 6: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Apr 15: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Apr 21: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Apr 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Apr 20: Global AI Night - Cleveland: ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland-tickets-148258271481 ) Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference ( https://aiconf.education/ ) May 4: MDC ( https://mndevconf.com/ ) May 7: Stir Trek ( https://stirtrek.com/ ) May 10: SQL Day Poland ( https://sqlday.pl/en/ )  

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