machine learning

  1. Announcing Microsoft’s Ad Mediation Service

    In-app advertising continues to represent over one-third of the revenue that developers make from writing apps for the Microsoft Windows platform. As part of our continuous commitment to maximize developer monetization through ads, today we are excited to announce Microsoft’s ad mediation...
  2. Cognitive Service API – Search

    In the last few posts, we’ve explored a few aspects available to you as part of the wider group of Link Removed. Microsoft Cognitive Services puts the power of machine learning within your reach with easy to consume REST APIs. Using the APIs and SDKs can add a whole new level of cognitive...
  3. Cognitive Services APIs: Knowledge

    “Ipsa scientia potestas est.” – Sir Francis Bacon In the last two posts in this series, we covered the Speech APIs and the Language Understanding APIs. In the current post, we’ll go over the Knowledge APIs. There is a natural progression to this since from speech, we derive meaning, and with...
  4. Cognitive Services APIs: Language

    In the last post, you saw how AI is used to turn speech into text through the Cognitive Services Speech APIs. Once sounds have been converted into written text, they still have to be distilled for their meaning. Human language, however, is rich in ambiguities and understanding a sentence...
  5. Cognitive Services APIs: Speech

    Speech recognition is in many ways at the heart of Artificial Intelligence. The 18th Century essayist Samuel Johnson captured this beautifully when he wrote, “Language is the dress of thought.” If the ultimate goal of AI research is a machine that thinks like a human, a reasonable starting point...
  6. Security trends & Windows 10

    Cybersecurity threats both new and known, from Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), to the Internet of Things (IoT), to the shortage of cyberworkers, threaten us each day. To help protect ourselves and our customers, we mobilize threat intelligence and machine learning, a mindset of “assume...
  7. Cognitive Services APIs: Vision

    What exactly are Cognitive Services and what are they for? Cognitive Services are a set of machine learning algorithms that Microsoft has developed to solve problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal of Cognitive Services is to democratize Link Removed by packaging it into...
  8. Australian Department of Human Services achieves full Windows 10 deployment

    Link Removed Windows10 is enabling Australian Department of Human Services to deliver better access to healthcare, disability and employment support. I had the good fortune to spend a part of my young life in Australia not as a tourist but as an employee of small tour company. Traveling to...
  9. Defending against ransomware with Windows 10 Anniversary Update

    Ransomware is one of the latest malware threats that is attracting an increasing number of cyber-criminals who are looking to profit from it. In fact, in the last 12 months, the number of ransomware variants have more than doubled. Its premise is deceptively simple: infect users’ devices, and...
  10. Getting personal – speech and inking (App Dev on Xbox series)

    The way users interact with apps on different devices has gotten much more personal lately, thanks to a variety of new Natural User Interface features in the Universal Windows Platform. These UWP patterns and APIs are available for developers to easily bring in capabilities for their apps that...
  11. Your Kitchen Appliances Are Watching You, Security Expert Warns

    Marie Mawad and Stefan Nicola | Bloomberg As makers of household appliances fill their machines with computer chips to make them smarter, consumers and privacy watchdogs should beware the data collected by these objects and how it’s used, says Marco Preuss, a director on Kaspersky’s global...
  12. "Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the..." Smart Mirror!

    Funny how some of the coolest projects come my way. Today project by Evan Cohen came via a "first time poster" on an internal Microsoft Distribution List, that happened to be subscribed to by a Channel 9 dev, who happened to read and realized it would be great of the Coding4Fun blog. Got to love...
  13. Using EEG & Azure Machine Learning to Build a Lie Detector | Let's dev this.

    Watch yourselves boys and girls because Link Removed has created something special (scary?) here! Learn how you can perform your own Lie Detection tests by capturing EEG (brainwave) data and then feeding that info into Azure Machine Learning to determine when people are telling you the truth and...
  14. Last Week on Channel 9: August 31st - September 6th, 2015

    As the summer wraps up here are just 25 of the many videos, posts and episodes from last week... Link Removed C# 6 makes coding even easier. Watch how Link Removed guides the discussion by comparing previous approaches to common tasks with new ways introduced in version 6. Features covered...
  15. Creating a Database Project for Artificial Intelligence

    The code can be brought down from this git repository: https://github.com/drcrook1/ProjectTeddy/tree/master/TeddyDemoSolution Link Removed - Introduction Link Removed - Visual Studio 2015 Link Removed - Create new Database Project Link Removed - Create Tweets Table Link Removed - Create...
  16. Last Week on Channel 9: August 3rd - August 9th, 2015

    20 select videos from last week... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Giorgio Sardo discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed @gisardo ... Link Removed This is the first in a somewhat experimental series called Brain Dump on Node.js with...
  17. Episode 179: Oxford APIs with Mat Velloso | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show

    In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Mat Velloso, a Senior Technical Evangelist in DX. Mat joins us to talk about the Oxford APIs, machine learning, Link Removed, and Link Removed. Mat starts by talking about How-Old.net inspired him to quickly build Twins or Not while on...
  18. Last Week on Channel 9: July 6th - July 12th, 2015

    17 of the many great posts, episodes and shows from last week. Can you feel the excitement building yet? Just a couple more weeks! Link Removed A technical evangelist explains how he uses OneNote for collaboration with his teammates. OneNote provides a central location where the entire team...
  19. The Story and Source for TwinsOrNot

    Just a couple weeks ago we highlighted Link Removed with a getting started post, Hello Face API... Now how about a web site that uses the same API, one that went viral during Build 2015? Hello Link Removed (and it's sibling, Link Removed)! Link Removed posted the story behind Link Removed...
  20. Last Week on Channel 9: June 29th - July 5th, 2015

    Even with a quite week due to the July 4th holiday here in the States, we still have 18 sessions for you to check out... Link Removed Josh Holmes describes Project Nitrogen - a framework that helps maintain data retrieved from hardware devices and stored in the cloud. Link Removed Channel...