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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 Azure AI is a portfolio of AI
services designed for software developers and data
scientists. Unity is the leading platform for creating
interactive, real-time content in 2D, 3D and virtual
reality.
“Jiadong chose this project to contribute
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Microsoft has revoked the Most Valuable Professional status of an Australian developer who publicly complained that the programme was effectively asking members to spread marketing material.
The software programmer, Geoffrey Huntley, took exception to Microsoft’s efforts last week in the following tweet.
I see the microsoft #mvpaward program has completed its de-evolution into outright providing content to influencers and asking them to spread it. pic.twitter.com/SqMBSDgLmy geoff (@GeoffreyHuntley) April 15, 2021
“There was an upcoming product release announcement by AWS and the program asked members to amplify a PR campaign that Microsoft SQL server runs best on Azure,” he added in another tweet, which concluded: “Like go out & blog about why azure and SQL server is the thing over AWS offerings.”