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Pitt and Carnegie Mellon are collaborating with NVIDIA to launch its inaugural AI Tech Community

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Pitt Chancellor Joan Gabel and Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian celebrated Pittsburgh鈥檚 role as an AI Tech Community by signing a ceremonial memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA at on Oct. 14. The summit included keynote remarks from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, discussing Pittsburgh鈥檚 global role in human-first AI innovation.听

鈥淚t鈥檚 an exciting time for Pitt and for Pittsburgh,鈥 said Chancellor Joan Gabel in remarks preceding the MOU signing. 鈥淚 want to express our pride of collaboration with NVIDIA as well as our pride in our city and with our neighbor and our friends at Carnegie Mellon University on what is truly a historic, new legacy-building day.鈥

, associate dean for AI in medicine at the 麻豆传媒鈥檚 麻豆传媒 of Medicine, also served as a panelist on a session examining the AI innovations that will shape the future of health, including data protection and patient privacy.

Anantha Shekhar, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the 麻豆传媒 of Medicine, said the collaboration with NVIDIA will be leveraged to explore new ways to connect computing breakthroughs to improved health outcomes for everyone.

鈥淎s a top-tier institution for the study of health sciences, it鈥檚 imperative that we continually educate our entire academic community on the best ways to optimize AI for the equitable study, prevention and treatment of disease,鈥 Shekhar said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e excited about the potential for this partnership to help us achieve this goal.鈥

Robbins, Jahanian and Shapiro watch Gabel sign the MOA
Shapiro gestures as Jahanian and Turner listen

While machine learning is often viewed as a newer discovery, Pitt has a long history听of creating innovation in the learning sciences that is both听interdisciplinary听and conducted within听research-practice partnerships. Pitt鈥檚 Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) is investigating how AI can improve student learning and has already established collaborative infrastructure for researchers from areas as diverse as business, law, psychology, education and computer science to study disciplinary听differences in AI learning tech across these spaces.

鈥淧itt has extraordinary research strengths in life sciences and in learning sciences,鈥 said Rob A. Rutenbar, Pitt鈥檚 senior vice chancellor for research. 鈥淥ur new NVIDIA partnership gives us access to state-of-the-art AI technologies applicable across the full spectrum of our world-leading 鈥榤eds and eds鈥 research.鈥

Additional information regarding the AI Tech Community and NVIDIA鈥檚 Joint Center with the 麻豆传媒 for AI and Intelligent Systems can be found on .

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Photography by Aimee Obidzinski

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