Table of Contents

1. The Artificial Intelligence 2.0 Revolution.- 2. Understanding the Internet of Things and Azure IoT Suite.- 3. Creating Smart IoT Applications.- 4. Understanding Cognitive APIs.- 5. Consuming Microsoft Cognitive APIs.- 6. Building Smarter Applications Using Cognitive APIs.- 7. Understanding Blockchain.- 8. Implementing Blockchain as a Service.- 9. Capturing, Analyzing, and Visualizing Real-time Data.- 10. Making Predictions with Machine Learning.

About the Author

Nishith Pathak is Vice President at Accenture Technology Labs, a Microsoft Regional Director (RD), and an artificial intelligence Microsoft MVP. He helps Fortune 100 companies design and architect next-generation solutions that incorporate AI, ML, cognitive services, Blockchain, and more. He sits on several technical advisory boards across the globe, and is author of multiple books, most recently Artificial Intelligence for .NET (Apress, 2017). He is an internationally acclaimed speaker on technologies such as AI and Blockchain, and regularly speaks at various technical conferences.   

Anurag Bhandari is Senior Researcher at Accenture Technology Labs, where he designs next-generation AI, ML, and IoT solutions for clients. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and regularly speaks at research and tech conferences. He also specializes in mobile and web development, and liveson the leading edge of these technologies. He is an ardent open-source evangelist whose love for free software helped him found the Granular Linux project 11 years ago.