{"id":6604,"date":"2016-05-13T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:00:16","slug":"blind-microsoft-engineer-uses-ai-to-see-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/blind-microsoft-engineer-uses-ai-to-see-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Microsoft engineer uses AI to &#8220;see&#8221; the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6605 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Blind-Microsoft-engineer-uses-AI.jpg\" alt=\"Blind Microsoft engineer uses AI\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Microsoft developer Saqib Sheikh who lost his eyesight at the age of seven has developed an app to help the visually challenged.<br \/>\nLondon-based Shaikh, said that talking computer technology inspired him to develop the application \u2013 titled SeeingAI \u2013 that is built upon Microsoft Intelligence APIs to translate real-world<br \/>\nMicrosoft released a video in their developer conference Build 2016 to explain how the intelligent software system called Seeing AI works.<br \/>\nIn the video, Sheikh tells his story that how he went to the blind school where he was introduced to talking computers. After joining Microsoft as a software engineer, he always wanted to develop apps which would help others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/blind-microsoft-engineer-uses-ai-to-see-the-world\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft developer Saqib Sheikh who lost his eyesight at the age of seven has developed an app to help the visually challenged. London-based Shaikh, said that talking computer technology inspired him to develop the application \u2013 titled SeeingAI \u2013 that is built upon Microsoft Intelligence APIs to translate real-world Microsoft released a video in their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}