Rakesh Ranjan
Software Engineer, IBM
Rakesh Ranjan is a Program Director and Architect of Cloud Data Services at IBM Cloud.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 1 & 2, 2016Session
Simplify Your Life with Your Own IBM Watson Personal Assistant
What if you had a personal assistant to deliver the timely and relevant information this for you? In this lab, you will build your own cognitive cloud app powered by IBM Watson to deliver news and weather customized for your preferences and location.
About This Session
We all lead busy lives, so it can be a challenge to find timely and relevant information. But what if you had a personal assistant to deliver this for you? In this lab, you will build your own cognitive cloud app powered by IBM Watson to deliver news and weather customized for your preferences and location. You will build your own Node.js application deployed to IBM Bluemix and use services from the Watson Alchemy News and the Weather Company. News articles are analyzed for category and sentiment and a real-time weather forecast is delivered for your location. Your assistant will speak to you with Watson text-to-speech technology, or can tweet your report. In the process, you will also learn more about Node-RED, Node.js and Bluemix.
The Speaker(s)
Nicholas Vargas
Software Engineer, IBM
Nick is a Software Engineer Intern for IBM and a student of Computer Science at UCSC.
Steven Chamberlin
Service Reliability Engineer, IBM
Steven Chamberlin is a service reliability engineer for the cloud data services team at IBM.