Mark McQuade
Co-Host of AI & U
Mark McQuade is an AWS and cloud-based solution specialist, knowledge addict and relationship builder. Earlier in his career, Mark held technical support, operations, business development and leadership roles for a telecommunications solutions provider, where he worked for 13 years. He then transitioned to the world of cloud and opened up his own AWS small business before joining Onica, who was acquired by Rackspace technology in 2019.
Mark is currently Practice Manager of Data Science & Engineering at Rackspace Technology. Every day, he gets to learn more about what he is passionate about professionally – AI and machine learning – as well as the fascinating world of data. As a technology evangelist, you’ll often find Mark promoting data and AI/ML at talks, webinars, podcasts and industry events.
Mark McQuade has hosted six Episodes.
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6: AI and Machine Learning Are Here to Empower People — Not Replace Them
August 24th, 2021 | 46 mins 47 secs
ai, ai & u, ai&u, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures
AWS experts explain how success in AI and machine learning permeates everything from tech efficiency to bettering humanity as a whole.
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5: The AI Aesthetic: Building Beautiful Data Apps
June 21st, 2021 | 32 mins 38 secs
ai, ai & u, ai&u, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures
The frontend often takes a backseat in the machine learning lifecycle. That’s why you need help to bring apps to life.
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4: Enabling the Computer Vision Revolution
May 26th, 2021 | 45 mins 6 secs
ai, ai & u, ai&u, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures
Startups are popping up to help innovators apply computer vision simply and without in-depth machine learning or deep learning expertise.
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3: The Chief Data Officer’s Perspective on AI
April 29th, 2021 | 35 mins 53 secs
ai, ai & u, ai&u, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures
The Chief Data Officer is responsible for making sense of data within an organization. What is their perspective on AI?
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2: Utilizing ML libraries in deep learning
March 30th, 2021 | 43 mins 40 secs
ai, ai & u, ai&u, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures
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1: Deriving value from NLP and Transformers
February 10th, 2021 | 41 mins 10 secs
ai, auto nlp, bert, gpt, ml, natural language processing, nlp, transfer learning, transformer architectures
For the inaugural episode of AI & U, Joe Davison, Research Engineer at Hugging Face, joins Mark McQuade, Practice Manager of Data Science & Engineering at Rackspace Technology, to chat about one of the hottest topics in AI: Natural Language Processing (NLP).