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SUMMARY:Why Do We Need New Hardware &amp\; Software for Machine Intelligen
 ce? - Victoria Rege\, Scott Griffiths
DTSTART:20190517T100000Z
DTEND:20190517T110000Z
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CONTACT:Robert Peharz
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Rege and Scott Griffiths from Graphcore will give a t
 alk on Graphcore's technology and hardware design for machine intelligence
 .\n\n\nVictoria Rege\, Head of Research Partnerships\, Graphcore\n\nVictor
 ia has over a decade of experience in the semiconductor space. She current
 ly heads up Strategic Partnerships at Graphcore\, working with key custome
 rs and leading Research & Universities AI engagements. Previously she held
  several leadership positions at NVIDIA from global alliances\, product ma
 rketing and campaigns to the founding of the GPU Technology Conference. Pr
 ior to joining NVIDIA\, Victoria worked in the hedge fund space\, as Execu
 tive Director for the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association. Victoria
  is a frequent contributor to ACM SIGGRAPH and is AR\, MR & VR Chair for t
 he SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference. She's also an active member of the Consumer T
 echnology Association's AI Working Group.\n\n \nScott Griffiths\, Applicat
 ions Engineer\, Graphcore\n\nScott studied physics at the universities of 
 Manchester and Southampton and completed a Ph.D. in theoretical high-energ
 y physics in 1999. He has worked in a variety of roles as a software engin
 eer since then\, specialising in video compression and computer vision in 
 a couple of successful Bristol start-ups. Since joining Graphcore last yea
 r he's been working on applications to showcase their new processor for ac
 celerating machine intelligence.
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room BE-438.
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