Open Mind Academy: Programming and Game Development in Python

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 Petar Veličković (DeepMind)

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.

Open Mind Academy: Courses Starting Soon

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!

Open Mind Academy continues this Summer

IT 2022 Special Event: Panel Discussion on HPC/AI and Applications

NGO “IT Društvo” and HPC NCC Montenegro, with support from University of Montenegro and University of Donja Gorica, organized a special session – panel “HPC/AI applications – opportunities, challenges and perspectives” as part of the XXVI scientific-professional conference Information Technology, IEEE IT2022. The event took place on June 4, 2022 in the canyon of the river Tara, municipality of Žabljak, Montenegro. This panel discussion was focused on the opportunities, challenges and perspectives of the application of Artificial Intelligence and High-performance Computing in our country, the region, and around the world.

IEEE IT2022 follow up event: Special Session on HPC/AI and Applications

Representatives from University of Belgrade, University of Sarajevo, University of Montenegro, and University of Donja Gorica took part in these discussions. There was around 35 participants including he representatives of industry from IT, medical, and agricultural sector. The socializing and networking took place in the beautiful ambient of the river Tara. This is another one in the list of events engaging the key partners and industry representatives in Montenegro and the region. More info on the IEEE IT2022 conference is available on the following link.

The event was opened by prof. dr Bozo Krstajic (University of Montenegro) and dr Sandra Tinaj (NCC Montenegro). The event included a lively Q&A session with presentations of projects (FASTER, EUROCC, AIMHIGH). The final list of panelists:

  • prof. dr Srdjan Krco (DunavNET, Serbia),
  • prof. dr Almir Badnjevic (VERLAB, Bosnia),
  • prof. dr Sanja Vujnović (University of Belgrade, Serbia),
  • prof. dr Slobodan Djukanovic (University of Montenegro, Montenegro),
  • prof. dr Tomo Popovic (University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro) as moderator.
Arriving to the venue
Panel discussions regarding opportunities, challenges and perspectives of HPC/AI and applications
Prof. Božo Krstajić opening speech, panelists were from Montenegro, Bosnia, and Serbia
HPC NCC Montenegro team presented the purpose and activities of the EUROCC project
The event included a lively Q&A session with presentations of projects

Successful Event: AI in Energy Sector by Prof. Mladen Kezunović (Texas A&M)

University of Donja Gorica and HPC NCC Montenegro invited a special guest, prof. dr Mladen Kezunović, a Regents Professor at Texas A&M University and Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Kezunović gave talk on Artificial Intelligence in Energy Sector. This lecture is part of the series of events pertaining to HPC/AI applications in the priority domains of Motenegrin S3 and in line with the EuroCC NCC Montengro goal for engaging industry with respect to HPC/AI applications .  There was over 70 attendees (live and online) including industry representatives (energy sector IT companies), universities, and high schools.

prof dr Mladen Kezunovic at UDG and NCC Montenegro (highlights)

Another NVIDIA Academic Grant: Equipment for Edge AI Classroom

NCC Montenegro researchers at UDG won another NVIDIA Academic Grant that will provide additional classroom equipment (Jetson Nano). This equipment will be used for implementing Edge AI classroom and realization of training in AI applications in IoT. The grant was awarded to prof. Tomo Popovic. Researchers participating in the Edge AI training are Stevan Cakic, MSc, Ivan Jovovic, Dejan Babic, and Zoja Scekic and it will be organized in with the support from NCC Montenegro.

Prof. Popovic awarded NVIDIA Academic Grant for Edge AI Classroom
Preparing the classroom for new ML course for Edge AI

HPC training by NCC Romania

HPC NCC Romania, in cooperation with HPC Competence Centers in Montenegro, Portugal and the Netherlands, is organizing training training session (online) in HPC technologies.

Training event will take place on the 26th of May 2022 starting with 09:00 AM (10.00 AM UTC+3). Draft agenda is avaliable at link.

Lectures will cover :
–  basic aspects of HPC technology (parallel computing), as well as technical details about accessing HPC resources and the libraries / paradigms used;

– practice session – hands-on exercise, by directly accessing the SURF-NL Supercomputer (Netherlands) from your laptop, which aims to exemplify the use of HPC and apply the concepts in the first part. These exercises will provide access to an HPC-type infrastructure.

In the first part of training, Luka Filipovic, NCC Montenegro, will speak about load balancing algorithms in parallel computing applications.



For the second part of the session, access credentials are needed in the supercomputing system. Participation is free and subject to a limited number of participants.

You will receive the access credentials, as well as the link of the online session, only after registering through the registration form on https://roncc.ro/eurocc-events/hpc-training-event-may-26-2022/. Please register no later than Wednesday, May 25, at 13:00 to have enough time to create all credentials by trainers.