{"id":68565,"date":"2018-12-12T17:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=429381"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:09:05","slug":"tomorrows-innovators-first-class-graduates-from-global-innovation-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/tomorrows-innovators-first-class-graduates-from-global-innovation-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow\u2019s innovators: First class graduates from Global Innovation Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Archisa
Archisa Guharoy and other graduates watch a video during the graduation ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen I measure the value of education, I look at those \u2018aha\u2019 moments. I had a lot of those moments here. I\u2019ve been really happy with the program.\u201d<\/p>\n

GIX trains students to think globally and ethically in an era of rapid change and increasingly shorter business and technology cycles, says Vikram Jandhyala, GIX\u2019s co-executive director and vice president for innovation strategy at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can we build a future set of innovators who will create products and services and be part of organizations that can navigate this changing landscape and lead innovation?\u201d Jandhyala asks. \u201cThat is the premise. It\u2019s not business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the 10 team projects of GIX\u2019s inaugural class were sponsored by the institute\u2019s industry partners, which include Microsoft, Boeing, T-Mobile, AT&T and Chinese technology company Baidu. Company leaders pitched loosely defined projects to GIX students, then mentored the teams as they developed their projects, leveraging the companies\u2019 technologies.<\/p>\n

That approach to learning makes GIX unique, says Ranveer Chandra, chief scientist for Microsoft Azure Global and an advisor on the chicken-monitoring project, named Cluck AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students are able to take the latest research from industry, build on top of it and show what can be achieved,\u201d Chandra says.<\/p>\n

\"Students
Students (from left) Xu Yan, David \u201cDavo\u201d Franco, Padraic Casserly and Ibtasam \u201cIbi\u201d Sharif present their Cluck AI solution, which uses machine learning to identify when farm chickens are in distress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis kind of an industry-academic collaboration, where industry\u2019s not just handing off something to students but providing them with cutting-edge research and working closely with them, is something I haven\u2019t seen before as part of a curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cluck AI team worked with Microsoft engineers to use machine learning to identify when chickens on a farm are in distress \u2014 when a predator is nearby, for example, or when they are overheated. A microphone captures the animals\u2019 sounds and sends them to Azure storage containers. When an anomaly is detected, the audio data is pushed to a dashboard, along with an image of the chicken in apparent distress. The farmer, who may not be onsite to monitor the livestock at all times, gets an email notification and can assess what\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a baby monitor for poultry farmers,\u201d says team member Padraic Casserly, 32.<\/p>\n

The solution uses technology developed for Microsoft\u2019s FarmBeats<\/a> project, an artificial intelligence and Internet of Things platform that harnesses data to increase farm productivity and cut costs. The four-member GIX team launched the project after Chandra, then the principal researcher behind FarmBeats, suggested that audio data could have untapped potential in farming.<\/p>\n

The team decided to focus on chickens, interviewing farmers and even buying two chickens of their own \u2014 named Margarita and Daisy \u2014 to record them. The students hope to develop the solution further and are looking into possible funding for a start-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archisa Guharoy and other graduates watch a video during the graduation ceremony. \u201cWhen I measure the value of education, I look at those \u2018aha\u2019 moments. I had a lot of those moments here. I\u2019ve been really happy with the program.\u201d GIX trains students to think globally and ethically in an era of rapid change and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[96,50],"class_list":["post-68565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-education","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}