Last week, the Summer school on HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications was held in Barcelona at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Over the course of 5 days, excellent lecturers gave the participants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the architecture of supercomputers, to deal in detail with RISC-V, to run scripts for training AI models on the MareNostrum supercomputer, but also with the application of these high-performance systems in application development artificial intelligence. One of the participants of this school was our PhD student from the Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies, mr Stevan Cakic. Mr. Cakic provided us with few photos from the event.
Attending one of the coursesSupercomputing facility in Barcelona MareNostrum (BSC)Attending a course at UPC
UDG and NCC Montenegro team members won a grant from ANSO – Alliance of International Science Organizations. This project aims development of a competency training in Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it is focused on innovation based on IoT and AI and development of competences and skills students will needs to have competitive advantage in IoT/I in the near future. This project started at the beginning of 2022 and will be implemented until the end of 2023. Ongoing activities are including initial team preparation and analysis of the sectors (WP1). The key personnel include UDG and NCC Montenegro senior members, as well as reputable experts from China, Serbia, and Slovenia. UDG is an ANSO Member Organization. More on ANSO can be found here.
Ongoing activities focused on team preparation and analysis of the sector
During the summer school of game programming, students had the opportunity to learn the basics of the Python programming language, and later the pyGame game development package within the EuroCC NCC Montenegro.
Python programming for high-school students
In the first part of the training, students learned why programming is so widespread today, what the basic data types are in Python, what are the conditions and loops. Also, students had the opportunity to learn what lists and dictionaries are, but also what object-oriented programming is. Besides listening to lectures, everyone who wanted to follow the second part of the training had to do homework (writing essays and programming). In the second part of the training, intensive lectures were held where the participants heard more about the Python package pyGame. This package is used to develop games in Python. Through the creation of the game, students learned how to program movement in games, detect collisions between objects, add graphics, sound. At the end of this part of the training, 4 teams were formed. The last day of training was organized as a competition between teams. Their task was to make a smaller game. The winning team won the prize to participate in this year’s conference within the EuroCC NCC Montenegro project.
Students spent time in online sessions to prepare and then three full days at the UDG
It was a pleasure for us to work with such a talented group of young people who we expect will achieve great success in the future.
Online sessions were attended by 25 students and 16 of them came for 3-day workshop at the UDG
University of Donja Gorica and HPC NCC Montenegro invited a special guest, prof. dr Petar Velickovic, an Affiliated Professor at the University of Cambridge and Scientific Researcher at DeepMind. Prof. Velickovic gave a very interesting talk on machine learning, a few practical applications of AI/ML used by Google Maps, pharmaceutical industry, and mathematics. Prof. Velickovic presented his latest research activities and results, most notably the AI/ML applications in mathematics that was published in Nature journal. There was around 80 attendees that included high school and college students (undergraduate and graduate), representatives of industry. Prof. Velickovic then had a meeting with Prof. Veselin Vukotic, UDG Rector, professors and young researchers. This was Petar’s fist lecture he gave in Montenegro!
Prof. dr Petar Velickovic (DeepMind, University of Cambridge)Prof. Velickovic gave a talk titled “Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics”There was over 80 attendees and a very lively discussion after the presentation
Open Mind Academy, implemented with support of UDG and NCC Montenegro, is offering a hands-on course “Programming and Game Development in Python”. The course is designed for high school and college students to learn Python, programming concepts, and apply those to game development.
First four terms will be held online:
Introduction, tools installation, concepts
Basic data types, conditionals, loops
Lists, dictionaries, functions
Object oriented programming
Then, the course will have a live portion that will be organized into minimum of three days of intensive work and team collaborations. This part will take place at the University of Donja Gorica. The flyer for the course is available here.
The online terms will be on 3, 7, 10 and 15 of July. The live part will be arranged with students to best fit everyone’s availability. Applying for the course needs to be done at the following link.
This attractive course is designed for high school and college students
An invited lecture “Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics” by prof. Petar Veličković will be given at the University of Donja Gorica in the context of NCC Montenegro activities. The lecture will take place in the Amphitheater AP, University of Donja Gorica, 24 June 2022, 11am.
Petar Velickovic to give an invited lecture “Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics”
Petar is currently engaged as an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology, where he earned his PhD degree. He has worked for several companies around the world, and he currently works for DeepMind as a Scientific Researcher. He has published a large number of scientific papers, most notably the paper “Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI”, that was featured on the cover of the journal Nature. Peter was a speaker at a number of workshops, conferences and other events. More details about the lecturer can be found on his on his website: https://petar-v.com/
Due to limited space, please apply via the form available on the following registration link.
We are continuing with the activities on Open Mind Academy. There will be enrollment into courses targeting high school students for this Summer. A new course for Programming games in Python will be starting soon. There will be courses on HPC/AI and Machine Learning, Parallel Programming, and others (link). Stay tuned!
