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Artificial Intelligence - Azure Government

Join us online Sept. 30: How government can put AI into action

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20
Karina Homme
Today’s AI solutions perform increasingly complex tasks that can enhance government’s mission; from predictive maintenance to language translation to improving farming and expediting disaster response. While the magnitude of impact AI can have on agencies is significant, there are many roadblocks to adoption and understanding optimal ...

Extract data from print and handwritten documents using Azure Form Recognizer

July 8, 2020 Jul 8, 2020 07/8/20
Azure Gov Team
Now available in Azure Government, Form Recognizer is an AI-powered document extraction service that understands your forms, enabling you to extract text, tables, and key value pairs from your documents, whether print or handwritten. With just a few samples, Form Recognizer tailors its understanding to your documents, both on-premises and ...

QnA Maker in Azure Government

January 30, 2020 Jan 30, 2020 01/30/20
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Microsoft Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Government team, talks with Russ Williams, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft supporting government customers, about QnA Maker in Azure Government. Russ begins by describing what QnA Maker is: a cloud-based service ...

Bot Service and LUIS on Azure Government

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, principal program manager, Microsoft Azure Government, talks with Sam Chan, senior program manager, Microsoft Azure Government, about the Bot Service and LUIS on Azure Government. Sam begins by explaining what both the Bot Service and LUIS are – and how these exciting...

Join us! How AI is creating what’s next in government

April 12, 2019 Apr 12, 2019 04/12/19
Karina Homme
As AI emerges from research labs and IT back offices and into the mainstream, the transformational possibilities of AI for both businesses and government are enormous. According to the Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, released earlier this year, "AI promises to drive growth of the United States ...

Adopting Emerging Tech in Government

November 15, 2018 Nov 15, 2018 11/15/18
Karina Homme
As blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented reality continue to create buzz throughout the tech industry, government agencies are exploring ways to apply emerging tech to empower their workforce and deliver innovative services to the public. Key to moving forward is the ability for agencies to define emerging ...

Get mission ready with deep technical training

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Azure Gov Team
Join us for deep technical training - free in Washington. D.C.! We’re excited to announce Microsoft Ignite | The Tour | Government a free technical training event for developers, tech professionals, and mission leaders, is coming to Washington, D.C. on February 4 – 5, 2019. Our top engineers are hitting the road to bring you two ...

Bringing more cybersecurity capabilities to Azure Government

October 18, 2018 Oct 18, 2018 10/18/18
Azure Gov Team
Protecting information systems and critical infrastructure from cyberattack and reducing the nation’s overall cybersecurity risk are key mandates that cross every level of local, state and federal government. In support of this effort, we’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Cybraics, a security analytics and artificial ...

Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight

July 25, 2018 Jul 25, 2018 07/25/18
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti sits down to talk with Yujin Hong, Program Manager on the Azure Government Engineering team, about Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight. There are endless applications of Artificial intelligence in the Government space, from predictive analytics to object ...