Presentation done by Praveen at Microsoft dotnetConf 2016 @ Kochi

1. Microsoft
Cognitive
Services
K-MUG | KOCHI
Microsoft dotnetConf 2016
22nd October 2016

2. Microsoft
Cognitive
Services

3. praveen nair
blog: ninethsense.com

4. Wiki:
“the term cognitive computing has been
used to refer to new hardware and/or
software that mimics the functioning of the
human brain and helps to improve human
decision-making”
IBM:
“systems that learn at scale, reason with
purpose and interact with humans
naturally.”

5. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
“a collection of
intelligence and
knowledge APIs that
enable developers to
make their applications
more intelligent, engaging
and discoverable.

6. Cortana Intelligence Suite

7. ‘Silly’ sample apps…
• How-Old.net
• Celebslike.me
• MyMoustache.net
• CaptionBot.ai
• ProjectMurphy.net

8. APIs
 Vision
 Speech
 Language
 Knowledge
 Bing Search

9. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services 1

10. Azure Portal 2

11. Beware of “preview”

12. Explore
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services

13. Easy
• REST
• Few lines of Code
Flexible
• Call from anywhere
Tested
• Built by experts
• Quality Documentation
• Sample Code
• Community Support

14. API DEMO

15. Competing…
• Microsoft
• IBM – Watson
• …
• …

16. Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2016 (by Gartner)

17. References
• Cognitive Services
• https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
• Cortana Intelligence Suite
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-
platform/cortana-intelligence-suite
• Azure Portal
• http://portal.azure.com/
• Azure Machine Learning
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/machine-
learning/

18. Thank You!
ninethsense@outlook.com
@ninethsense
964 588 9033