Meet the Maker: High School Student Develops Robot Guide Dogs With NVIDIA Jetson

High school student Selin Alara Ornek is looking ahead — using machine learning and the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to create robot guide dogs for the visually impaired. The project, called IC4U, is one of seven robots Ornek has created to date, including a school aid robot, named BB4All, that can
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Byte-Sized Courses: NVIDIA Offers Self-Paced Career Development in AI and Data Science

AI has seen unprecedented growth — spurring the need for new training and education resources for students and industry professionals. NVIDIA’s latest on-demand webinar, Essential Training and Tips to Accelerate Your Career in AI, featured a panel discussion with industry experts on fostering career growth and learning in AI and other advanced technologies. Over 1,800
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First Class: NVIDIA Introduces Generative AI Professional Certification

NVIDIA is offering a new professional certification in generative AI to enable developers to establish technical credibility in this important domain. Generative AI is revolutionizing industries worldwide, yet there’s a critical skills gap and need to uplevel employees to more fully harness the technology. Available for the first time from NVIDIA, this new professional certification
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NVIDIA Partners With APEC Economies to Change Lives, Increase Opportunity, Improve Outcomes

When patients in Vietnam enter a medical facility in distress, doctors use NVIDIA technology to get more accurate scans to diagnose their ailments. In Hong Kong, a different set of doctors leverage generative AI to discover new cures for patients. Improving the health and well-being of citizens and strengthening economies and communities are key themes Read article >

Souped-Up Auto Quotes: ProovStation Delivers GPU-Driven AI Appraisals

Vehicle appraisals are getting souped up with a GPU-accelerated AI overhaul. ProovStation, a four-year-old startup based in Lyon, France, is taking on the ambitious computer-vision quest of automating vehicle inspection and repair estimates, aiming AI-driven super-high-resolution stations at businesses worldwide. It recently launched three of its state-of-the-art vehicle inspection scanners at French retail giant Carrefour’s Read article >

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How to Start a Career in AI

How do I start a career as a deep learning engineer? What are some of the key tools and frameworks used in AI? How do I learn more about ethics in AI? Everyone has questions, but the most common questions in AI always return to this: how do I get involved? Cutting through the hype Read article >

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UN Satellite Centre Works With NVIDIA to Boost Sustainable Development Goals

To foster climate action for a healthy global environment, NVIDIA is working with the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) to apply the powers of deep learning and AI. The effort supports the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has at its core 17 interrelated Sustainable Development Goals. These SDGs — which include “climate action” Read article >

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NVIDIA Launches New, Updated Accelerated Computing Libraries: NVIDIA ReOpt, cuQuantum, cuNumeric, cuGraph, Modulus, Morpheus, NeMo Megatron, Riva, RAPIDS, DOCA and Dozens More

NVIDIA has introduced 65 new and updated software development kits — including libraries, code samples and guides — that bring improved features and capabilities to data scientists, researchers, students and developers who are pushing the frontiers of a broad range of computing challenges. The additions, announced by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang during his Read article >

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GTC Offers Educational Sessions to Meet Exponential Demand for AI and Robotics Skills

The demand for specialization in AI and robotics is growing more than ever. Roles in these two fields are multiplying across many industries, with titles such as AI specialist and robotics engineer, respectively, placing as the first- and second-fastest emerging jobs in the U.S., according to the most recent Emerging Jobs Report from LinkedIn. With Read article >

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Wonders of the World: NVIDIA Emerging Chapters Program Spurs AI Innovation Across Developing Countries

Two artists, if given the same paint set, would create distinct works — each showcasing their own points of view. This is especially likely if the artists were to hail from opposite ends of the world. Similarly, developers across the globe use the same tools to create different AI-based applications, each solving challenges relevant to Read article >

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The Bright Continent: AI Fueling a Technological Revolution in Africa

AI is at play on a global stage, and local developers are stealing the show. Grassroot communities are essential to driving AI innovation, according to Kate Kallot, head of emerging areas at NVIDIA. On its opening day, Kallot gave a keynote speech at the largest AI Expo Africa to date, addressing a virtual crowd of Read article >

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Find Your Groove: Add NVIDIA AI Essentials Series to Your Summer Playlist

If AI, data science, graphics or robotics is your jam, stream the NVIDIA AI Essentials Learning Series this summer. These intro-level courses provide foundational knowledge to students and early-career developers looking to broaden their areas of expertise. The free series includes over a dozen sessions — each less than an hour long — on topics Read article >

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A Sparkle in Their AIs: Students Worldwide Rev Robots with Jetson Nano

Every teacher has a story about the moment a light switched on for one of their students. David Tseng recalls a high school senior in Taipei excited at a summer camp to see a robot respond instantly when she updated her software. After class, she had a lot of questions and later built an AI-powered Read article >

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NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Releases New Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit for Educators

As data grows in volume, velocity and complexity, the field of data science is booming. There’s an ever-increasing demand for talent and skillsets to help design the best data science solutions. However, expertise that can help drive these breakthroughs requires students to have a foundation in various tools, programming languages, computing frameworks and libraries. That’s Read article >

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New Training Opportunities Now Available Worldwide from NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Certified Instructors

For the first time ever, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute is making its popular instructor-led workshops available to the general public. With the launch of public workshops this week, enrollment will be open to individual developers, data scientists, researchers and students. NVIDIA is increasing accessibility and the number of courses available to participants around the Read article >

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Get Trained, Go Deep: How Organizations Can Transform Their Workforce into an AI Powerhouse

Despite the pandemic putting in-person training on hold, organizations can still offer instructor-led courses to their staff to develop key skills in AI, data science and accelerated computing. NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute offers many online courses that deliver hands-on training. One of its most popular — recently updated and retitled as The Fundamentals of Deep Read article >

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DIY with AI: GTC to Host NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Courses for Anyone, Anywhere

The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute is launching three new courses, which can be taken for the first time ever at the GPU Technology Conference next month.  The new instructor-led workshops cover fundamentals of deep learning, recommender systems and Transformer-based applications. Anyone connected online can join for a nominal fee, and participants will have access to Read article >

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2 Million Registered Developers, Countless Breakthroughs

Everyone has problems. Whether they’re tackling challenges at the cutting edge of physics, trying to tame a worldwide pandemic, or sorting their child’s Lego collection, innovators join NVIDIA’s developer program to help them solve their most challenging problems. With the number of registered NVIDIA developers having just hit 2 million, NVIDIA developers are pursuing more Read article >

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It’s Not Pocket Science: Undergrads at Hackathon Create App to Evaluate At-Home Physical Therapy Exercises

The four undergrads met for the first at the Stanford TreeHacks hackathon, became close friends, and developed an AI-powered app to help physical therapy patients ensure correct posture for their at-home exercises — all within 36 hours. Back in February, just before the lockdown, Shachi Champaneri, Lilliana de Souza, Riley Howk and Deepa Marti happened Read article >

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Virtually Free GTC: 30,000 Developers and AI Researchers to Access Hundreds of Hours of No-Cost Sessions at GTC Digital

Just three weeks ago, we announced plans to take GTC online due to the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, a small army of researchers, partners, customers and NVIDIA employees has worked remotely to produce GTC Digital, which kicks off this week. GTC typically packs hundreds of hours of talks, presentations and conversations into a five-day event Read article >

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