Throughout the Fall 2019 academic semester CLASS in partnership with the Florida Space Institute will be holding a seminar speaker series. The series is open to everyone. Seminars last 45 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. If you are interested in presenting, wish to recommend someone for a presentation, or would like to be on the mailing list, please contact us.
Date | Speaker |
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9/11 | Alison Lowndes, NVIDIA |
9/25 | Garrett Schieber, Georgia Tech |
10/9 | David Masten, Masten Space Systems |
10/22 | Kelsi Singer, SwRI |
11/6 | Nicole Shumaker, Texas A&M |
11/20 | Paul Abell, NASA JSC |
12/4 | Koorosh Raghabi, NASA JSC |
Date: Sept 11, 2019
Time: 11:30am
Recorded talk: Watch here
Fuelling the Artificial Intelligence Revolution with Gaming
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence is impacting all areas of society. AI won’t be an industry, it will be part of every industry & NVIDIA invests both in internal research and platform development to enable its diverse customer base, across gaming, VR, AI, robotics, graphics, rendering, visualisation, HPC, healthcare & more. This talk will introduce the hardware and software & state-of-the-art developments across academia, enterprise and startups, demoing, for example, the combination of robotics with VR and AI in an end-to-end simulator to train intelligent machines.
Artificial Intelligence DevRel | EMEA @AlisonBLowndes
Joining in 2015, Alison spent her first 18 months with NVIDIA as a Deep Learning Solutions Architect and is now responsible for NVIDIA’s Artificial Intelligence Developer Relations across the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa). She is a mature graduate in Artificial Intelligence combining technical and theoretical computer science with a physics background & over 25 years of experience in international project management, entrepreneurial activities and the internet. She consults on a wide range of AI applications, including planetary defence with NASA, ESA & the SETI Institute and works closely with the community of AI & Machine Learning researchers around the world, remaining knowledgeable in state of the art across all areas.