{"id":2881,"date":"2019-08-28T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/class\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2019-09-26T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:59:19","slug":"seminar-series-alison-b-lowndes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/seminar-series-alison-b-lowndes\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series: Alison B Lowndes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:500px;text-align:left\">\n<tr>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9\/11<\/td>\n<td>Alison Lowndes, NVIDIA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9\/25<\/td>\n<td>Garrett Schieber, Georgia Tech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/9<\/td>\n<td>David Masten, Masten Space Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/22<\/td>\n<td>Kelsi Singer, SwRI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11\/6<\/td>\n<td>Nicole Shumaker, Texas A&amp;M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11\/20<\/td>\n<td>Paul Abell, NASA JSC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12\/4<\/td>\n<td>Koorosh Raghabi, NASA JSC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Sept 11, 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 11:30am<br \/>\n<strong>Recorded talk:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9K8LZ4j5pA4\">Watch here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuelling the Artificial Intelligence Revolution with Gaming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nArtificial Intelligence is impacting all areas of society. AI won\u2019t be an industry, it will be part of every industry &amp; 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 &amp; more. This talk will introduce the hardware and software &amp; 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.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence DevRel | EMEA  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlisonBLowndes\">@AlisonBLowndes<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nJoining in 2015, Alison spent her first 18 months with NVIDIA as a Deep Learning Solutions Architect and is now responsible for NVIDIA&#8217;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 &amp; 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 &amp; the SETI Institute and works closely with the community of AI &amp; Machine Learning researchers around the world, remaining knowledgeable in state of the art across all areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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