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Published inMay 2023
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Chris Seferlis
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Chris Seferlis is an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience working in IT and solving technology challenges to accomplish business goals. Chris has an MBA from UMass, bringing a mix of business acumen, with practical technology solutions, focusing on the Microsoft Data Platform and Azure.
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Christopher Nellis
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Christopher Nellis is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and is experienced in deploying large-scale infrastructure for organizations. He has a passion for automation and MLOps and enjoys working with people to solve problems and make things better.
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Andy Roberts is a seasoned Data Platform and AI Architect. He has dawned many hats in his career as a developer, dba, architect, project lead, or more recently a part of a sales organization, the heart of his job has always revolved around data. Acquiring it, shaping it, moving it, protecting it and using it to predict future outcomes, processing it efficiently.
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Reviewing past and future investments

With the explosion of AI among enterprises, Microsoft's investment in their Cognitive Services suite started back in 2015 with Project Oxford. At the Microsoft Build conference (typically targeted at developers) that year, it was announced that this new set of ML-based REpresentational State Transfer (REST) API and SDK tools were being built. There have been many directional changes and iterations of deployments, but the majority of the services released back then are still being used today. The only major difference is the approach to Face APIs, as discussed briefly in the last section.

Updates

Microsoft maintains a blog for notable changes to Azure and tags articles based on technology. Cognitive Services-specific articles are tagged and can be found here in their complete form: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/cognitive-services.

Later on, the Azure updates blog was announced and articles about new services and features...

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Chris Seferlis

Chris Seferlis is an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience working in IT and solving technology challenges to accomplish business goals. Chris has an MBA from UMass, bringing a mix of business acumen, with practical technology solutions, focusing on the Microsoft Data Platform and Azure.
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Christopher Nellis

Christopher Nellis is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and is experienced in deploying large-scale infrastructure for organizations. He has a passion for automation and MLOps and enjoys working with people to solve problems and make things better.
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Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts is a seasoned Data Platform and AI Architect. He has dawned many hats in his career as a developer, dba, architect, project lead, or more recently a part of a sales organization, the heart of his job has always revolved around data. Acquiring it, shaping it, moving it, protecting it and using it to predict future outcomes, processing it efficiently.
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