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Thursday, 29 July 2021, 11:27 am A prototype app using artificial intelligence to diagnose pneumonia has won the developer an international award. Company-X senior software developer Jiadong Chen built the prototype for an international competition run by Microsoft. Chen built an image classifier for detecting bacterial and viral pneumonia using Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Unity, winning the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Global Cloud Skills Challenge. Microsoft A...

Esri Is Joining the Call for Code Global Challenge alongside IBM to Support the Developer Ecosystem and Open-Source Community in Combating Climate Change REDLANDS, Calif. — Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is joining the fourth annual Call for Code Global Challenge. Created by David Clark Cause and launched in partnership with IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation, Call for Code is designed to make an immediate and lasting global impact...

"Natural language is actually a very difficult thing to emulate," Nedim Fresko, Amazons VP of Alexa Devices and Developer Technologies, told ZDNet last year. "When people speak naturally, they change direction, they make contextual references to things they said. Sometimes they over-supply information, sometimes they under-supply it -- when that happens, consumers revert to robotic language and simple phrases, and developers just give up." To use Alexa Conversations, developers give Amazon a f...

Friday, 26 February 2021, 3:04 pm HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND: An award-winning expert in Microsoft and Unity 3D, 2D, augmented and virtual reality technologies has joined New Zealand Agile software specialist Company-X. Five-time winner of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Developer Technologies award, Jiadong Chen, recently joined Company-X. Chen is one of 3,000 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award winners internationally, recognised by Microsoft as one of the technology industry’s...