Where does the Microsoft Intelligent cloud fit into your curriculum
Microsoft has a number of advanced analytics and cognitive capabilities which are available for Academia to use within Teaching Learning and Research here a quick run down of these and what types of roles may utilise these services within the Work Place.
Microsoft Cognitive Service Interface and Target Personas
REST APIs (pre-built models) https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/apis Bot Framework https://dev.botframework.com Cortana Intelligence Suite https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/suites/cortana-intelligence-suite/
i. Example: Cognitive Services generic models, Bots, Cortana
ii. Targeted for application developers, architects etc. that require an interface that provides direct developer access and abstracts all AI/machine learning/cognitive specifics
Microsoft Adaptive Learning Frameworks / Self-Service AI
i. Example: LUIS https://luis.ai (abstract the algorithms/code in the interface) Microsoft Flow and PowerApps https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/ Microsoft Flow https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/
ii. Targeted for information workers that have cognitive domain knowledge, but don’t have the skills to build Cognitive solutions
Microsoft Platform/Software
i. Example: MSFT Cognitive Toolkit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/cognitive-toolkit/ SQL Server 2016 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sql-server/sql-server-2016 Microsoft R Server https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/cloud-platform/r-server
ii. Targeted for statisticians, data scientists that can leverage the full power of a framework to build cognitive solutions
Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure
i. Example: N-Series https://gpu.azure.com/ Virtual Machines https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/ Azure Batch https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/batch/
ii. Targeted for the IT department that is responsible for providing the hardware/infrastructure for their advanced analytics department(s)
Microsoft Deployment Options
On-Premises
i. i.e. MSFT Cognitive Toolkit, MSFT R Server
In the Cloud
i. i.e. Cognitive Services, Azure Batch
Hybrid
i. i.e. ability to move cognitive model training and operations between on-premises and the cloud https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/