Saving the World One App at a Time – The Humanitarian Toolbox | Presented by Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks fame tells his story of software, hardware and charity that ultimately has led him to the Humanitarian Toolbox (htbox.org). The Humanitarian Toolbox is an open source initiative to build software for disaster relief – both for the Non-Governmental Organizations that are involved in disaster relief, the citizen volunteers that donate…

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Computers have feelings too! | Paul Glavich at DDD Sydney 2017

Well not quite, but they can detect them. This talk will explore Microsoft Cognitive Services in Azure. We’ll take a look at the offerings overall, and then take a deeper look into specifics such as Sentiment analysis, Computer vision (image recognition) and Emotion detection. Computers have feelings too from Paul Glavich

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Ready for Next | Tatham Oddie at DDD Sydney 2017

This year, we celebrate 10 years of the iPhone: a device that remodelled awkward business PDAs into pervasive internet access. For a significant portion of society, they’re now embedded into everything we do. I struggle to buy a coffee now if my phone is flat, and no coffee = no function. In this talk, we’ll…

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Highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2017 Gold Coast

The SSW TV team was on the Gold Coast to cover Microsoft Ignite 2017. It was a fantastic week where we got to meet some world class experts and feature them on our channel. We interviewed over 26 different speakers during the week and have released the content in a special Microsoft Ignite 2017 playlist.…

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What is a compiler? We thought we knew… | Mads Torgersen at DDD Brisbane 2015

SSW TV was proud to sponsor and record 2015’s DDD event in Brisbane. This video features Mads Torgersen, Program Manager at Microsoft, who talks about compilers, specifically Roslyn. This is a fascinating talk and should be watched by any developer. From the description: Project “Roslyn” revamps C#’s fundamental compiler infrastructure, and challenges our concept of…

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