Microsoft Announces Azure ML, Cloud-based Machine Learning Platform That Can Predict Future Events | TechCrunch

Abstraction: Microsoft Azure ML cloud machine learning platform launch announcement 2014

Key points:

• Announced June 2014; built on ML capabilities already used in Xbox and Bing products
• Led by Joseph Sirosh (corporate VP, former Amazon); enables building predictive APIs and web services on Azure
• Supports 300+ packages from the R open-source ecosystem used by data scientists
• Reduces time to deploy ML applications from weeks/months to hours by solving "last mile" infrastructure problem
• Carnegie Mellon University used it to predict and reduce campus energy costs; Max 451 used it for retail demand forecasting
• IBM Watson (cloud service launched January 2014) and Ersatz Labs (deep learning cloud) named as competitors

Connections: Microsoft · Azure ML · Ibm Watson · Machine Learning · Cloud Computing

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/16/microsoft-announces-azure-ml-cloud-based-machine-learning-platform-that-can-predict-future-events/