Dublin Business School students and staff recently paid a visit to the Microsoft offices in Leopardstown, for a lunch and learn session with Microsoft Academic Program Manager, Stephen Howell. Students from programmes such as Computer science, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing and Business programmes went along for insights into one of the world’s leading multinational technology companies.
Stephen treated the students to a full tour of the impressive premises. He then gave a fascinating lecture about engagement with Microsoft cognitive services labs and machine learning using facial recognition software. Students learned about the changing landscape of computer software, business models and digital transformation, and looked at an amazing add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint that allows you to translate spoken language and output as written subtitles. Next up it was time for lunch and students were given the opportunity to ask Stephen specific questions around desired graduate attributes.
Stephen, along with arts lecturer Susan Sweeney, recently published the #cyborgart project. Cyborg Art is a teaching case study on the affordances programmable sensors in mixed media art projects, which was completed with Film and Media students at DBS. The case study looks at phyton coding for non-coders and wearable and embeddable technology. The paper is published in the Dublin Business Review journal VOL 2 (2018): DBS BUSINESS REVIEW 2018 https://lnkd.in/grAzFCg