Seeing is Believing–Microsoft Gets Its AI Groove On – MeriTalk

How do you spell the future of government IT? While that's not going to get you too many points on the triple word score in Scrabble, the technology and applications will unscramble massive dividends in cost savings, service enhancements, and breakthroughs. Gail Thomas, vice president U.S. public sector, and Kimberly Nelson, executive director state and local government solutions at Microsoft tipped over their AI, IoT, and blockchain toy box of applications running in the Azure cloud for us last month–and it's anything but child's play. Microsoft is building advanced tech services into its cloud offering to help new and disruptive application development partners accelerate into the government space. Let's start with the challenges in managing child adoption–a problem that's been accentuated by the opioid crisis.