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Microsoft MakeCode.com Perfect for inspiration and starting a development journey
The Microsoft MakeCode team is proud to announce a great partnership with Adafruit Industries. Over...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/19/2017
Azure Resource Manager simply allows you to configure and implement your infrastructure with a JSON Template.
I had a very interesting meeting with a University recently, who were interested in using ARM...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/18/2017
Imagine Cup 2017 UK National Finals–What a day it was
Guest blog by Siddhartha Chaturvedi from Microsoft Independent Software Vendor team at Microsoft UK...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/18/2017
Getting Started with Azure Design Patterns and Azure ARM Quick start templates
So one the most common questions I get is how do I get started with designing and implementing Azure...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/17/2017
MS Research Cambridge visit by Microsoft Student Partners
Guest blog by Mariam Elgabry, Microsoft Student Partner Lead at Imperial College London As a...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/16/2017
Using Kudu and deploying apps into Azure
There are a number of ways to deploy your applications to Microsoft Azure Web Sites, there are also...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/15/2017
Image Based Motion Analysis with Kinect V2 and OpenCV
Guest blog by Edward Hockedy, 3rd year computer science student Introduction and project background...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/15/2017
Microsoft Azure Cloud and Containers
Manage containers on Azure There’s no need to change your existing management practices to move...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/14/2017
Microsoft Azure makes VMs Affordable for Everybody
Guest blog by Wolfgang Gentzsch, UberCloud We are all very familiar with mass market economics: when...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/14/2017
Visual Studio for Mac
Get Visual Studio for Mac now Visual Studio for Mac is an integrated, end-to-end solution for...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/11/2017
Quick Review of Key Azure announcements at Build 2017
Here is a quick run down of the main Azure announcement from the Day 1 Keynote at //BUILD, Database...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/10/2017
Man and Machine Work Together to Defeat Starcraft Bots AI Summit 2017
AI Summit on May 9th & 10th London A team of machine learning researchers from Oxford University...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/09/2017
Learn all about Containers for HPC Cambridge - Events for June 2017
Singularity - Containers for HPC Workshop - Titan Teaching Rooms, New Museum Site, Cambridge, 29th...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2017
Microsoft \Build starting 10th-12th May 2017
Software continues to transform the world in remarkable ways and developers are at the centre of it....
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2017
Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts
You can more easily access a variety of commands and windows in Visual Studio by choosing the...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/04/2017
Shorten release cycles, improve quality and increase value–teach DevOps
Visual Studio provides a complete DevOps solution that streamlines continuous deployment, delivers...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/03/2017
Heading to Seattle – Team Pocket Sized Hands UK Imagine Cup National Finalist
Guest post by Gary McCartan from Abertay University on his teams Imagine Cup experience. Bringing...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/03/2017
Why Azure for HPC? Academic workshop A Deep Dive Workshop into HPC and Azure at University of Oxford 10.00am – 4.00pm, 13th June 2017
Azure provides on-demand compute resources that enable you to run large parallel and batch compute...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/03/2017
Heading to Seattle - Team KSF.LCC UK Imagine Cup National Finalist
ROOT (Remote Observation & Operation Technology) won the 3rd Prize & Special Imagination...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/03/2017
AZURE event 25th May 2017 with Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s EVP of Cloud & Enterprise.
Speaker:Scott GuthrieEVP, Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft Date:May 25, 2017830am - 530pm...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/28/2017
Microsoft IOT Central – Internet of Things
Microsoft IoT Central A new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that reduces the complexity of IoT...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/26/2017
Imagine Cup 2017 UK National Winners
The Imagine Cup is an annual competition that empowers the next generation of student developers and...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/24/2017
Air Quality Radar — Empowering City Users with Open Data
Every year, 2nd year Computer Science students at the University of Cambridge take part in a group...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/24/2017
Quantum Computing
Station Q in sunny Santa Barbara, California is made up of their own highly diverse set of theorists...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/20/2017
Microsoft Announces - MayEvent for Education - https://event.microsoft.com/MayEvent/
Join us May 2 for a livestream to learn what’s next from Microsoft. Add it to your calendar here:...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/20/2017
Announcing the 2017 Imagine Cup UK National Finalists
The Imagine Cup UK Finals 2017 are only a day away and we are very excited to announce the UK...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/20/2017
University of Cambridge and Hololens On-Site Virtual Mapping Can Aid Inspections
Guest blog by Dr Ioannis Brilakis and Marianna Kospida University of Cambridge & Catherine A....
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/19/2017
Microsoft Spot Market – My university industrial project
Guest post by Maya Afshar from University College London What is this all about? As a Computer...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/19/2017
Now available on Azure Marketplace - Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine
Ubuntu Linux Data Science Virtual Machine is now available is now released on the Azure marketplace....
Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/19/2017
The Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge
We are pleased to announce The Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge – a challenge aimed to foster...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/31/2017
If you’re not using your Infrastructure turn if off! Saving costs on Azure
One of the most common questions I get is How does Azure charge for my VM? Azure charges an hourly...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/31/2017
6 Weeks of AI starting April 4th 2017
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising and disrupting how business is done and the implications...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/29/2017
Imperial College London - Health Hack helping Cystic Fibrosis
Guest Post by Simon Jackson Microsoft Valued Professional for Xbox What is the ICHealthHack? Quote...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/28/2017
Microsoft QnA Maker–Creating a Bot for answering frequently asked questions
Microsoft QnA Maker Overview One of the basic requirements in writing your own Bot service is to...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/28/2017
Azure GPU Tensorflow Step-by-Step Setup
The following guide has been developed in collaboration with my colleague at Microsoft Christine...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/27/2017
Learning more about the Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine 4th April 6pm–7pm
Public webinar on DSVM This webinar focuses on demonstrating how the Data Science Virtual Machine...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/27/2017
World-class HPC on demand, Azure allows you to simulate complex models without having to manage infrastructure.
You may want to run lots of computations, such as a parameter study or Monte-Carlo run. Running a...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/27/2017
Using F# to write serverless Azure functions
Guest post by Thomas Denney Microsoft Student Partner at the University of Oxford. Over the last few...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/24/2017
Comparing Azure to AWS a quick guide to the key differences
One the question I get from academics and students is how does Microsoft Azure services compare to...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/22/2017
Azure Architecture Center
Ever wondered what the best practice for setting up and configuring cloud architectures well here is...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/18/2017
Spark for Azure HDInsight
Guest blog from Alberto De Marco Technology Solutions Professional – Big Data This week we just...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/15/2017
Setting up more than 18 GPU Instances on Azure using VMs or Containers
I have been getting a number of questions around the availability of Azure N Series GPU at present...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/14/2017
From student to Evangelist–Stand out at Hacks and take opportunities
Being an part of the Microsoft ecosystem changed everything. I thought I’d take the opportunity to...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/14/2017
Setting up Azure subscription and resources at your institution
Subscriptions & Resource Groups are one of the most important aspects when looking at how to...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/13/2017
Microsoft Graph is a framework and platform that provides data based on user identity and user activity.
Microsoft Graph is a big dataset and a framework to help make that data available to other...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/13/2017
Implementing Academic Projects using Microsoft Technologies
One of the projects, I have been working on over the last few months is the development of a...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/11/2017
Getting Started with Windows Azure Series 2. Building your first VM
The 2nd most common question I get is how can I build a VM on Azure Well Step 1 is logging into...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 03/10/2017