From the Back Cover
Use this hands-on guide book to learn and explore cognitive APIs developed by Microsoft and provided with the Azure platform. This book gets you started working with Azure Cognitive Services. You will not only become familiar with Cognitive Services APIs for applications, but you will also be exposed to methods to make your applications intelligent for deployment in businesses.
The book starts with the basic concepts of Azure Cognitive Services and takes you through its features and capabilities. You then learn how to work inside the Azure Marketplace for Bot Services, Cognitive Services, and Machine Learning. You will be shown how to build an application to analyze images and videos, and you will gain insight on natural language processing (NLP). Speech Services and Decision Services are discussed along with a preview of Anomaly Detector. You will go through Bing Search APIs and learn how to deploy and host services by using containers. And you will learn how to use Azure Machine Learning and create bots for COVID-19 safety, using Azure Bot Service.
After reading this book, you will be able to work with datasets that enable applications to process various data in the form of images, videos, and text.
You will:
- Discover the options for training and operationalizing deep learning models on Azure
- Be familiar with advanced concepts in Azure ML and the Cortana Intelligence Suite architecture
- Understand software development kits (SKDs)
- Deploy an application to Azure Kubernetes Service
Ed Price is Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA degree in technology management. Previously, he led Azure Global's efforts to publish key architectural guidance, ran Microsoft customer feedback programs for Azure Development and Data Services, and was a technical writer at Microsoft for six years, helping lead TechNet Wiki. Ed now leads Microsoft's efforts to publish reference architectures on the Azure Architecture Center (including a strong focus on AI architectures). He is an instructor at Bellevue College, where he teaches design and computer science. At Microsoft, he also helps lead volunteer efforts to teach thousands of students how to code each year, focusing on girls and minorities. Ed is a co-author of six books, including Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook, Cloud Debgging and Profiling in Microsoft Azure (Apress), and Learn to Program with Small Basic.
Adnan Masood, PhD, is an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning researcher, Software Engineer, Microsoft regional Director, and Microsoft MVP for Artificial Intelligence. An international speaker and thought leader, Adnan currently works at UST as Chief AI Architect, and collaborates with Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and MIT AI Lab on building enterprise solutions. Adnan has authored four books, including Automated Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing Recipes (Apress).
Gaurav Aroraa is a Chief Technology officer at SCL, with Doctorate in Computer Science. Guarav is a Microsoft MVP award recipient. He is a lifetime member of the Computer Society of India (CSI), an advisory member and senior mentor at IndiaMentor, certified as a Scrum trainer and coach, ITIL-F certified, and PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P certified. Guarav is an open-source developer and a contributor to the Microsoft TechNet community. He has authored ten books, including Cloud Debugging and Profiling in Microsoft Azure (Apress).
