Microsoft Faculty Connection
Azure CLI ‘Command Line Interface’ for Web Site & Database Management
I was having some email discussion today with a professor around his Azure course, the Professor was...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 09/06/2016
Microsoft’s Professional Degree in Data Science
Microsoft Data Science Structure The program consists of some required courses with a few electives....
Author: Lee Stott Date: 09/05/2016
Getting started with Microsoft Azure Service Fabric
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 09/02/2016
Getting started using Visual Studio Team Services VSTS for source control
So one of the thing I see on a regular basis is students undertaking projects but they arent using...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 09/01/2016
FREE Azure Cloud Resources for Students via Imagine Access/DreamSpark
Microsoft Azure for DreamSpark gets you started with the services you need to develop in the cloud...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/31/2016
Visualisation of Data with Power BI
Power BI is an amazing business analytics service that enables anyone to visualise and analyse data....
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/31/2016
Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and Linux now available
The Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine is an Azure virtual machine (VM) image pre-installed and...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/30/2016
Using Amazon Lambda or Google Cloud Function check out Azure Functions
Azure Functions are the answer to Amazon's Lambda or Google's Cloud Functions, which perform similar...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/25/2016
App Dev on Xbox One Live Event 30th August 2016
Windows 10 Anniversary Update was released earlier this month Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK,...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/24/2016
Windows 10 - UWP Community Toolkit
The Windows UWP Community Toolkit, is a new project that enables the developer community to...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/22/2016
Microsoft Flow set up automated workflows between your favourite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and more.
Check out some templates If you visit the home page for Microsoft Flow, you can explore a diverse...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/22/2016
Adding Extensions to your Visual Studio Team Services Environment
I was having a interesting discussion with an academic today, the discussion was around the...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/05/2016
Azure N-Series Virtual Machines, the fastest GPUs in the public cloud, are now available in preview
N-Series instances are enabled with NVIDIA’s cutting edge GPUs to allow you to run GPU-accelerated...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/05/2016
Getting Started with Blockchain as a Service using Microsoft Azure Dev Test Labs
Blockchain as a Service is now available within Microsoft Azure DevTest Labs. Developers and testers...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/01/2016
Getting Started Microbit & Microsoft’s new https://pxt.microbit.org Environment
Create your first game We will be using the new Block/JavaScript Development environment...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 08/01/2016
Maximising your Azure Educator Grants with Azure Automation
So are you enjoying your Azure Educator Grants? The Goal of the Azure Educator Grant is to empower...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 07/15/2016
Visual Studio Team Services Overview Resources and Tips
I wrote a blog back in Sept about using Visual Studio and Continuous Integration this blog has...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 07/15/2016
Utilising Microsoft Azure Dev/Test Labs in your student projects and lab environments
Dev Test labs – Build Preconfigured images for your labs Azure DevTest Labs is a service that helps...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 07/15/2016
Building a Microsoft Bot using Microsoft Bot Framework & FormFlow
This blog has been produced by Jamie Dalton UK Technical Evangelist AI and Bots are hot right now,...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 07/14/2016
CNTK - Computational Network Toolkit - Open Source, Multi-machine, Multi-GPU, Highly efficient RNN training, Speech, Image, Text
CNTK was designed for peak performance for not only CPUs but also single-GPU, multi-GPU, and...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 07/13/2016
Signing into DreamSpark via Office365
Forget exporting users, handing out another sets of credentials or separate user management. A group...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 07/12/2016
Solving Configuration Management Obstacles with Chef
Chef is a powerful configuration management system that can be used to programmatically control your...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/29/2016
Open Source for Academics
Open source software is a powerful way to advance software development and share data for...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/23/2016
Team Sapient from University of South Wales Imagine Cup 2016 World Finalist
A group of computer game developers from the University of South Wales (USW) are through to the...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/23/2016
Xamarin Test Cloud and Hockey app for testing of mobile Apps
Continuous Delivery •Practices to ensure code can be delivered automatically •Automated deployment...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/23/2016
DevOps the Wall of Confusion understanding the basics of DevOps
In a traditional development cycle, the development team kicks things off by “throwing” a software...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/23/2016
Are you or your class mates building/creating amazing Student Projects?
So have your done are you doing amazing Student projects using Microsoft Technologies? The Students...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/21/2016
Developing a Microsoft Health Bot based on Data captured from the Microsoft Band
The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/17/2016
Microsoft Azure Service Fabric now for Linux
Linux support should mean developers can build applications using the tools that they’re used to....
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2016
Project Bletchley Microsoft vision for open, modular Blockchain powered by Azure Cloud
Since launching Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) last November. The Azure Blockchain...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2016
Cortana Intelligence Suite and learning Azure ML, Jupyter notebooks with R and Python
With Cortana Intelligence Suite, students had access to a rich set of tools such as Azure ML,...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/15/2016
I want to get started with Machine Learning.. But where do I start?
Here’s a task for you: Type “I want to get started with machine learning” into your favourite search...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/14/2016
Embedding Microsoft Virtual Academy Learning Resources into your MOOC
With the advent of blended learning students may want to or need to complete a particular Microsoft...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/08/2016
Project Murphy Microsoft Bot Framework AI
Project Murphy is Microsoft’s AI-based services using the Microsoft Bot Framework...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2016
Test your DevOps Skills at the DevOps Factory
In today’s software-driven economy, customers demand more, and businesses need to respond quickly to...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/26/2016
Microsoft Programming Experience Toolkit–Blocks to Javascript coding experience
The Microsoft Programming Experience Toolkit (PXT) is a framework for creating special-purpose...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/18/2016
UCL's Data Science Hackathon with Cortana Intelligence Suite
The impact of the data revolution can be felt with data scientists increasingly offering us...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/17/2016
So What is Blockchain
Ok, so this week I have been on a bit of epic University road trip, assessing student projects at...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/12/2016
What Azure Machine Learning Algorithm Should You Use
Azure Machine Learning Studio comes with a large number of machine learning algorithms that you can...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/11/2016
Microsoft Azure egress fee waiver for academic EES Subscribers
Based on Microsoft’s extensive experience engaging and working with the academic community, we...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/10/2016
Azure Cloud Educator Grants at University of Dundee
University of Dundee, Scotland, is one of the UK's leading universities, internationally recognised...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/10/2016
R Server for HDInsight running on Microsoft Azure Cloud & Data Science Challenges
The premium tier offering for HDInsight includes R Server on HDInsight is now in preview on...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/10/2016
Xbox One and Retail Dev Kit Mode - Develop for Xbox One UWP at your University or College
At Build 2016 we announced...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2016
Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Machine Learning Studio the perfect tool for Academics and Students
Azure ML Studio is a powerful canvas for the composition of machine learning experiments and their...
Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2016