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Conversations about River Mechanics, Sediment Transport, and Fluvial Geomorphology
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One person, one interview, one story. Join us as we explore the impact of AI on our world, one amazing person at a time -- from the wildlife biologist tracking endangered rhinos across the savannah here on Earth to astrophysicists analyzing 10 billion-year-old starlight in distant galaxies to the Walmart data scientist grappling with the hundreds of millions of parameters lurking in the retailer’s supply chain. Every two weeks, we’ll bring you another tale, another 25-minute interview, as we ...
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Recursion CEO Chris Gibson on Accelerating the Biopharmaceutical Industry With AI - Ep. 230
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Techbio is a field combining data, technology and biology to enhance scientific processes — and AI has the potential to supercharge the biopharmaceutical industry further. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Chris Gibson, cofounder and CEO of Recursion, about how the company uses AI and machine learning to accelera…
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How Georgia Tech’s AI Makerspace Is Preparing the Future Workforce for AI - Ep. 229
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AI is set to transform the workforce — and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s new AI Makerspace is helping tens of thousands of students get ahead of the curve. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Arijit Raychowdhury, a professor and Steve W. Cedex school chair of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech’s college…
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Paige Cofounder Thomas Fuchs’ Diagnosis on Improving Cancer Patient Outcomes With AI - Ep. 228
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Improved cancer diagnostics — and improved patient outcomes — could be among the changes generative AI will bring to the healthcare industry, thanks to Paige, the first company with an FDA-approved tool for cancer diagnosis. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Paige cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer Thomas Fuc…
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How Roblox Uses Generative AI to Enhance User Experiences - Ep. 227
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Roblox is a colorful online platform that aims to reimagine the way that people come together — now that vision is being augmented by generative AI. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Anupam Singh, vice president of AI and growth engineering at Roblox, on how the company is using the technology to enhance virtual …
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Michael Rubloff Explains How Neural Radiance Fields Turn 2D Images Into 3D Models - Ep. 226
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Let’s talk about NeRFs — no, not the neon-colored foam dart blasters, but neural radiance fields, a technology that might just change the nature of images forever. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast recorded live at GTC, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Michael Rubloff, founder and managing editor of radiancefields.com, about radiance field-based …
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Peter Wilcock on Gravel Bed Rivers, Partial Transport, Armor Layer Persistence and Channel Design (Plus Wilcock & Crowe)
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When HEC hired me to add sediment transport to HEC-RAS almost 20 years ago now, I inherited a set of sediment transport functions that were mostly developed in the early to mid 20th century. These were – and continue to be – important equations. But when I sat down with the RAS team To talk about the new science I was excited to include in a river …
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Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta on Supercharging India’s Fast-Growing AI Market - Ep. 225
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India’s AI market is expected to be massive. Yotta Data Services is setting its sights on supercharging it. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Sunil Gupta, cofounder, managing director and CEO of Yotta Data Services, speaks with host Noah Kravitz about the company’s Shakti Cloud offering, which provides scalable GPU services for enterprises of…
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How Two Stanford Students Are Building Robots for Handling Household Chores - Ep. 224
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Imagine having a robot that could help you clean up after a party — or fold heaps of laundry. Chengshu Eric Li and Josiah David Wong, two Stanford University Ph.D. students advised by renowned American computer scientist Professor Fei-Fei Li, are making that a dream come true. In this episode of the AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz spoke with the two…
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Basecamp's Phil Lorenz on Combining AI With Biodiversity Data - Ep. 223
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Basecamp Research is on a mission to capture the vastness of life on Earth at an unprecedented scale. Phil Lorenz, chief technology officer at Basecamp Research, discusses using AI and biodiversity data to advance fields like medicine and environmental conservation with host Noah Kravitz in this AI Podcast episode recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC gl…
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Media.Monks’ Lewis Smithingham on Enhancing Media and Marketing With AI - Ep. 222
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Meet Media.Monks’ Wormhole, an alien-like, conversational robot with a quirky personality and the ability to offer keen marketing expertise. Lewis Smithingham, senior vice president of innovation and special ops at Media.Monks, a global marketing and advertising company, discusses the creation of Wormhole and AI’s potential to enhance media and ent…
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Performance AI: Insights from Arthur's Adam Wenchel – Ep. 221
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In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, recorded live at the GTC 2024, host Noah Kravitz sits down with Adam Wenchel, co-founder and CEO of Arthur. Arthur enhances the performance of AI systems across various metrics like accuracy, explainability, and fairness. Wenchel shares insights into the challenges and opportunities of deploying generative …
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AI2’s Christopher Bretherton Discusses Using Machine Learning for Climate Modeling - Ep. 220
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Can machine learning help predict extreme weather events and climate change? Christopher Bretherton, senior director of climate modeling at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, explores the technology’s potential to enhance climate modeling with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz in an episode recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC global AI…
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Living Optics CEO Robin Wang on Democratizing Hyperspectral Imaging - Ep. 219
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Step into the realm of the unseen with Robin Wang, CEO of Living Optics. The startup cofounder discusses the power of hyperspectral imaging with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz in an episode recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference. Living Optics’ hyperspectral imaging camera, which can capture visual data across 96 colors, reveals details…
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Mary Power on River Ecology, Disturbance, and Inverted Pyramids
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Dr. Power is a food web ecologist at UC Berkeley, where she leads the Power lab which has compiled careful, long term data sets in the Angelo Reserve in Northern CA. In addition to her early work, in Panama and the Ozarks - which we touch on briefly - Dr. Power’s multi-decadal data sets on the Eel River, have yielded remarkable findings about how f…
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Dotlumen CEO Cornel Amariei on Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired - Ep. 217
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Dotlumen is illuminating a new technology to help people with visual impairments navigate the world. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, host Noah Kravitz spoke with the Romanian startup’s founder and CEO, Cornel Amariei, about developing its flagship Dotlumen Glasses. Dotlumen is a member o…
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Cleanlab's Curtis Northcutt and Berkeley Research Group's Steven Gawthorpe on AI for Fighting Crime
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Talk about scrubbing data. Curtis Northcutt, cofounder and CEO of Cleanlab, and Steven Gawthorpe, senior data scientist at Berkeley Research Group, speak about Cleanlab’s groundbreaking approach to data curation with Noah Kravitz, host of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, in an episode recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference. The startup’s tools en…
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Alain Recking on Sediment Sorting, Transport, and Relative Roughness in Mountain Rivers
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Dr Alain Recking has quantified gravel bed transport with just about all the tools available to our discipline. In addition to substantial field work- Dr. Recking has done some important and influential flume experiments. We have talked and will talk about hiding and armoring quite a bit in this podcast, because they are difficult ideas, that are h…
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Personalized Health: Viome's Guru Banavar Discusses Startup’s AI-Driven Approach - Ep. 216
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Viome CTO Guru Banavar discusses how the startup’s innovations in AI and genomics advance personalized health and wellness.By NVIDIA
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Sediment Modeling Failure Modes and Best Practices with Four Model Developers
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A couple years ago, my agency asked me to write some guidance on sediment modeling, so, I reached out to the morphological modelers I knew, and particularly the model developers who write the morphological model code other people use. I asked them about the common failure modes they have seen and best practices they teach, and realized we had all e…
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ITIF's Daniel Castro on Energy-Efficient AI and Climate Change - Ep. 215
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AI-driven change is in the air, as are concerns about the technology’s environmental impact. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Daniel Castro, vice president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and director of its Center for Data Innovation, speaks with host Noah Kravitz about the motivation behind his AI energy use report,…
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Tony Thomas on the Origin of Sediment Modeling and Insights from >55 Years of Sediment Studies
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I’ve heard people call Tony the godfather of Sediment Transport Modeling and - as you’ll hear in our conversation - he very well may be the first person to use a computer to answer an engineering scale sediment question. But most people about my age and older, know Tony for developing the first generalized sediment model. He was part of the origina…
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Exploring Filmmaking with Cuebric's AI: Insights from Pinar Seyhan Demirdag - Ep. 214
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In today’s episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz talks with Pinar Seyhan Demirdag, co-founder and CEO of Cuebric. Cuebric is on a mission to offer new solutions in filmmaking and content creation through immersive, two-and-a-half-dimensional cinematic environments. Their AI-powered application aims to help creators quickly bring their i…
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Jim Selegean and the "Classic Paper Draft"
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Dr. Jim Selegean is the Sediment Transport Specialist at the Corps Detroit District where he studies the rivers and sediment loads into the great lakes as well as inland costal processes. He is also a professor at Wayne State in Detroit. And that joint position has helped him mentor many young scientists and engineers throughout the years, geomorph…
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How the Ohio Supercomputer Center Drives the Future of Computing - Ep. 213
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NASCAR races are all about speed, but even the fastest cars need to factor in safety, especially as rules and tracks change. The Ohio Supercomputer Center is ready to help. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Alan Chalker, the director of strategic programs at the OSC, about all things supercomputing. The center’s …
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Astrid Blom on Incision on the Rhine, Gravel-Sand Transitions, and Vertical Bedform Sorting
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Dr. Astrid Blom is a professor Civil Engineering & Geosciences at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is perhaps best known for her recent reach and rive scale work, modeling hundreds of kilometers, sometimes for hundreds or thousands of years. These models explore the long-term equilibrium state of river responses to human modificati…
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Cardiac Clarity: Dr. Keith Channon Talks Revolutionizing Heart Health With AI - Ep. 212
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Here’s some news to still beating hearts: AI is helping bring some clarity to cardiology. Caristo Diagnostics has developed an AI-powered solution for detecting coronary inflammation in cardiac CT scans. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Dr. Keith Channon, cofounder and chief medical officer at the startup, speaks with host Noah Kravtiz about…
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Marcello Garcia (part 2) on Sedimentation Hazards, the Bulle Effect, and Transport Paradigms
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In the previous episode, we talked to Dr. Marcelo Garcia about the astonishing compilation of sediment science he edited, the ASCE Sedimentation Manual. In this episode, we turn to some of his work, covering a wide range of topics, but landing for a while on sedimentation hazards including mud and debris flows, the Bulle Effect, and two transport p…
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Marcelo Garcia Shares Some Sediment Stories and Discusses Manual of Practice 110
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Dr. Marcelo Garcia holds an endowed chair in Hydraulics at the University of Illinois-Urbana – where he has taught for more than thirty years, and runs the remarkable Ven Te Chow hydraulic and sediment laboratory. His award page reads like a who’s-who of the Legends in our field. These include but are not limited to: The Einstein Award, the Rouse A…
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DigitalPath's Ethan Higgins On Using AI to Fight Wildfires - Ep. 211
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DigitalPath is igniting change in the golden state — using computer vision, generative adversarial networks and a network of thousands of cameras to detect signs of fire in real time. In the latest episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravtiz spoke with DigitalPath system architect Ethan Higgins about the company’s role in the ALERTCalifornia …
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David Montgomery on High Gradient River Mechanics (Classification, Incipient Motion, and Wood) and Sediment Impacts on Human History
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Dr. David Montgomery has been so prolific, that for several years I actually thought he was two people: First, Dr. D. Montgomery is a well known geomorphologist from the University of Washington (and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow) whose name is on much of the seminal, high-gradient channel transport and classification literature. And then there David Mon…
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