Microsoft Research is delighted to offer two no-cost training workshops as part of eResearch Africa 2014 at the University of Cape Town on November 27 and 28th, 2014. This is part of our Microsoft Azure for Research programme. (http://www.azure4research.com)
eResearch Africa brings together practitioners and researchers for a stimulating week to share ideas and exemplars on new information centric research capabilities. eResearch is focused on how information and communications technologies help researchers to collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, and re-use information. –
See more at: http://www.eresearch.ac.za/overview-14#sthash.93n5rdj7.dpuf
There are two separate one-day workshops, you can apply for either one, or both:
– Thursday 27 November. Microsoft Azure for Research tutorial that will cover websites, virtual machines, cloud storage, scale-out computing, and visualisation. You will learn how cloud computing can accelerate your research. To register for this course go to: http://aka.ms/Azure4ResearchZA
– Friday 28 November. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning for Research where you will learn how to create, test, evaluate and publish machine learning predictive analytics easily, all in the cloud. To register for this course go to: http://aka.ms/Azure4ResearchML-ZA
Attendees will be able to access Microsoft Azure on their own laptop during the training and receive a Microsoft Azure Pass for evaluation purposes (no credit card required).You will also learn more about receiving significant Microsoft Azure 12-month grants for your research, and join one of over 300 projects worldwide using the Cloud – http://www.windowsazurepass.com/research
Microsoft Azure is a general, open, and flexible global cloud platform supporting any language, tool, or framework – including Linux, Java, Python, and other non-Microsoft technologies. The program will cover a variety of “hands-on labs” with programming examples predominantly in Python and Java. No prior experience of Microsoft Azure is required. The only prerequisite is basic programming experience in some language.
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is a new offering from Microsoft that makes it easy for the academic community to use machine learning technology for their research. In contrast to traditional tools for machine learning, Azure Machine Learning can be mastered without extensive technical training and it facilitates collaboration with colleagues
The attendee’s laptop does not need to have the Windows operating system installed – Microsoft Azure is accessed via an Internet browser. After attending the course, researchers will feel confident in applying cloud computing in their current and future research.
For questions about the course please contact kenji.takeda@microsoft.com
