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Unit Testing Azure DevOps UI Extensions
Mocking cloud service dependencies in modern applications is essential for independent unit testing. We show how to mock all relevant parts of the Azure DevOps Extension SDK, Azure DevOps Extension API as well as other external APIs to create meaningful unit tests for Azure DevOps UI Extensions and reach full code coverage.
Developing and Deploying a Recommender Model for Continuous Systematic Literature Reviews
This blog post is about using the Microsoft Academic Graph and NLP to build a personalized recommender system to suggest new scientific publications to researchers maintaining Systematic Literature Reviews.
Evaluation Framework for Information Extraction
In this blog post we cover the process, requirements, and the design of an evaluation framework for NLP and Information Extraction. We cover the reasoning behind such a framework, and discuss its implementation with examples from a Named Entity Recognition evaluation point of view.
Building A Clinical Data Drift Monitoring System With Azure DevOps, Azure Databricks, And MLflow
Hospitals around the world regularly work towards improving the health of their patients as well as ensuring there are enough resources available for patients awaiting care. During these unprecedented times with the COVID-19 pandemic, Intensive Care Units are having to make difficult decisions at a greater frequency to optimize patient health outcomes. The continuous collection of biometric and clinical data throughout a patient’s stay enables medical professionals to take a data-informed, holistic approach to clinical decision making. In some cases, a Machine Learning model may be used to provide insig...
Using Blockchain To Securely Transfer And Verify Files
MOOG came to CSE in hopes of building a technology solution that would prove the provenance and transfer of digital assets securely between parties. Working together, Microsoft and MOOG set out to develop a demo of this solution that leverages Azure and blockchain technology.
Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure
In the last eight years, poaching in Africa has been happening at an alarming rate. Currently, the continent loses three rhinos a day. As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with
Using uPort For Authentication On Blockchain To Improve Standards On The Food Logistics Chain
Food ingredients travel thousands of miles along logistics chains. One bad batch of produce can ruin a restaurant’s reputation, but it’s hard to identify who’s at fault. CSE has worked with Hitachi to build a sample infrastructure leveraging blockchain – thus achieving a new level of accountability for those producing, storing and serving food.
Real-time Streaming Of 3D Enterprise Applications From The Cloud To Low-powered Devices
Microsoft recently partnered with AVEVA, an engineering, design and management software provider to the Power, Oil & Gas and Marine industries. AVEVA’s challenge is one that is becoming more and more common in the construction visualization space: ever increasing complexity of 3D data that needs to be highly interactive to a customer base that operates on mobile platforms (smartphones, tablets, and untethered headsets like HoloLens). AVEVA believes that remote rendering and live asset streaming is the way forward for their business. As a result of our collaboration, we built 3D Streaming Toolkit, an open-s...
Assessing the Severity of Acne via Cell Phone Selfie Images Using A Deep Learning Model
Nestlé Skin Health partnered with Microsoft to develop a deep learning model powered mobile app able to assess acne severity using only uploaded selfie images as a source.