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Nicola Rohrseitz
Lead, Strategic AI Program
Chief Architecture and Technology Organization
AI is eating the World — Nicola Rohrseitz is part of Cisco’s Chief Technology and Architecture Organization, is a founding member of the Cisco AI-ML Center of Excellence, and leads the Strategic AI Program. He drives product innovation through applied research in machine learning and facilitates the adoption of AI at scale though open knowledge management and rapid prototyping methods.
Nicola serves as a technology and innovation expert for the the Swiss government and the European Commission. Prior to Cisco he has been a start-up founder and small-medium business executive. He holds a PhD in Physics and Neuroscience from ETH Zurich, as well as a Master in Robotics from the Swiss Institute of Technology at Lausanne. Back in 2002, Nicola wrote his first machine learning system. In Assembler, to run on a mobile device, the Palm T. Many levels of abstraction later, he still enjoys connecting the fundamentals towards understanding general artificial intelligence and machine consciousness.
Articles
AI, the scientist
Scientific discovery is one of the engines of human and societal progress. Scientists spend years and years learning, devising hypotheses, carrying out conclusions, and publishing results, in pursuit of advancing the state of the art. What now if a machine were able to do science, only much faster?…
Distributed AI Development Using Blockchain
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming entire industries because of higher performance and faster time to market. Part of the success is due to researchers creating and open sourcing datasets, frameworks, and algorithms (e.g., ImageNet, Caffe). Current leaders are fo…
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