AI competitions & cloud resources

In this special episode, we interview some of the sponsors and teams from a recent case competition organized by Purdue University, Microsoft, INFORMS, and SIL International. 170+ teams from across the US and Canada participated in the competition, which challenged students to create AI-driven systems to caption images in three languages (Thai, Kyrgyz, and Hausa).

Featuring:

• Matthew Lanham – Website, X
• Mark Tabladillo – LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Purdue University’s Krannert School of Business
• Master the basics of Azure: AI Fundamentals
• Azure Architecture Center
• SIL International
• The bloom-captioning dataset

Books

• “Applied Machine Learning and AI for Engineers” by Jeff Prosise

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