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Originally published 7 March 2017 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.
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I have been featured at The Science Museum's Robot Exhibition. The picture shows the iCub humanoid robot built by IIT, Italy. The bottom of the picture shows myself around 8 years ago when I was starting PhD and was training the iCub robot to learn various actions using the GPU-accelerated Multiple Time-scales Recurrent Neural Network (MTRNN). Back then my work with GPUs and their applications to machine learning was one of the earliest attempts to apply CUDA parallel computing in cognitive robotics. Since then the field has come a long way and I have played a key role in establishing a CUDA teaching centre in Plymouth where I also taught parallel computing. After that point, myself and Davide Marocco were working with NVIDIA to provide 2-3 day courses across UK.
