Jen Looper

Jen Looper @jenlooper

About: As an educator, author and technologist, Jen Looper has over 24 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform web & mobile apps.

Location:
Boston, MA
Joined:
Mar 12, 2017

Jen Looper
articles - 41 total

Using Cloudinary's New MCP Server to Scrape Mozzarella, Camembert and Parmesan

image from Midjourney, amusingly prompted as 'cheesecore' I'm always interested in how new...

Learn More 7 5Jun 22

Guys, I created the most useful AI Agent: the Egg Price-o-matic!

Ever since I heard about Agentic AI and the ability that we now have to send little helpers all...

Learn More 20 1Mar 18

What are JavaScript Engines?

Writing code for the web sometimes feels a little magical in that we write a sequence of characters...

Learn More 6 1Dec 26 '24

The Last Saree: Connoisseurship in the Age of AI

Exploring how AI can contribute to the concept of connoisseurship by helping humans better appreciate ancient artifacts, with the example of artisan textiles as a catalyst to help humans move from appropriation to appreciation

Learn More 13 2Nov 19 '24

Welcoming More Girls to Computer Science in Middle School

Changing how girls perceive computer science, programmers, the craft of programming, and the career paths that are open to them is crucial to ensure a diverse, equitable, just and intersectional field going forward.

Learn More 28 8Oct 29 '24

Join the AWS Generative AI Festival for a Chance to Win a Box of Swag!

During August 2024, we're hosting the world's first Generative AI Festival along with AWS Cloud Clubs

Learn More 5 0Aug 11 '24

Build a 'Green' Browser Extension

Always wanted to build a browser extension but afraid to try? Fear no more, you can build a browser extension that calls an API to give your region's carbon usage

Learn More 8 0Apr 13 '24

The Ethics of Generative AI Part I - Some Vocabulary

The lightning-speed development of generative AI in various permutations has serious ethical questions on fair use. In this introductory article I tackle this vast topic by offering some vocabulary and a timeline

Learn More 3 1May 7 '23

Announcing a New Free Curriculum: Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

Learn the basics of AI with Education Cloud Advocates at Microsoft, including GOFAI ("good old-fashioned AI"), symbolic reasoning, knowledge representation, neural networks, neural frameworks with TensorFlow and PyTorch, computer vision, semantic segmentation, Natural Language Processing, deep Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Multi-Agent Systems and AI Ethics

Learn More 20 3May 26 '22

Fall Cohort Open for Registration: Front-End Foxes School

Front-End Foxes is proud to open a new kind of boot camp: by women developers for women developers! Learn more about it here and get ready to learn with us starting Sept 6!

Learn More 2 3Aug 3 '21

Announcing a New Free Curriculum: Machine Learning for Beginners

Learn the basics of classic machine learning with Education Cloud Advocates at Microsoft, including regression, clustering, classification, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, time series forecasting, and more

Learn More 99 4Jun 30 '21

Making Games with Autistic Students: A Partnership between the National Museum of Computing, Track.org, and Azure Advocates

Learn about how we partnered with a nonprofit and a famous museum in the UK - home of the Turing machines - to teach game development for Autistic students

Learn More 25 4Apr 15 '21

Build a 'Green' Browser Extension

Always wanted to build a browser extension but afraid to try? Fear no more, you can build a browser extension that calls an API to give your region's carbon usage

Learn More 28 2Apr 7 '21

Introducing MaZine Learning, Zines about Machine Learning

Learn about a new series of free, printable, downloadable mini magazines (zines) all about machine learning

Learn More 8 0Mar 1 '21

Ombromanie: Creating Hand Shadow stories with Azure Speech and TensorFlow.js Handposes

Learn how to make hand shadow stories with TensorFlow.js's Handpose model and Azure Speech Service

Learn More 37 0Feb 22 '21

Blast Off With Azure Advocates: Presenting The Azure Space Mystery

SOS! The ISS has had a piece of its solar wing damaged by space junk, and it's up to you to save it! In this new Mystery Adventure by Azure Advocates, complete four missions, meeting famous women scientists along the way, save the ISS, and collect your badge!

Learn More 40 7Feb 11 '21

Announcing a New Kind of Boot Camp: Front-End Foxes School

Front-End Foxes is proud to open a new kind of boot camp: by women developers for women developers! Learn more about it here and get ready to learn with us!

Learn More 71 13Feb 8 '21

Machine Learning for Artisans: Classifying Lacemaking Techniques

Using a machine learning model generated with Lobe.ai, you can create an interesting dataset to classify historical artifacts such as antique lace

Learn More 22 0Jan 22 '21

Jump Start your Developer Skills with Visual Studio Code Coding Packs

Python and Java coding packs offer a free and easy way to get started seamlessly as a developer using Visual Studio Code

Learn More 56 0Jan 6 '21

Announcing a Free Curriculum: Web Development for Beginners

Learn the basics of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML from Azure Advocates in this free online curriculum

Learn More 313 23Nov 12 '20

Saving Halloween 2020 with Azure Maps and Candy Caches

Let me show you how I rallied my town and created a map showing kids where to find contactless, pandemic-friendly candy caches that saved Halloween!

Learn More 20 7Oct 21 '20

Azure Maya Mystery Part III: Ascent to the Summit

Ascend to the summit of the Azure Maya Mystery's forgotten pyramid in the jungle, learning its name and the goddess to whom it is dedicated

Learn More 9 0Sep 3 '20

Azure Maya Mystery Part II: The Mysterious Cenote

Jump in to the mysterious cenote to discover more about the Azure Maya Mystery's pyramid

Learn More 12 4Aug 3 '20

Unraveling the Azure Maya Mystery and Building A World

Learn how we built a text-based game to teach about Ancient Maya Glyphs and discover aspects of Microsoft Azure, all built on an Azure Static Web App

Learn More 47 0Jul 2 '20

Ice Cream Or Dalmatian? Who Can Tell?! Building a Machine-Learning Powered PWA

Build an offline-first Progressive Web App that uses a machine learning model built on CustomVison.ai's service to differentiate between tricky images and deploy it using a GitHub Action

Learn More 65 3Apr 30 '20

2019 Retrospective and 2020 Roadmap

We had a tremendous year in 2019. Let's learn about what we did and where we're going in 2020.

Learn More 41 0Jan 31 '20

Deploy your Website on Azure with GitHub Actions like a Hipster

Need to deploy your website? Want to use GitHub Actions like those cool kids over there? I'll show you how!

Learn More 122 11Jan 31 '20

Lucy's Dilemma - Day 2 of the #25DaysOfServerless Challenge

Lucy has a problem, and a serverless scheduler can help!

Learn More 13 0Dec 3 '19

Spin Your Dreidel! Day 1 of the #25DaysOfServerless Challenge

Let's start with a very simple challenge: create a function to spin a dreidel

Learn More 36 1Dec 2 '19

Merry and Bright with Azure Advocates’ 25 Days of Serverless

Learn about Azure Advocates' 25 Days of Serverless project - 25 days of fun puzzles on serverless technologies

Learn More 132 13Nov 19 '19