Waikato Ranked Top 60 In The World For Research That Impacts Economic Growth And Reducing Inequality scoop.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scoop.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sunday, 18 April 2021, 1:04 pm
The
NVIDIA DGX A100 supercomputer with L-R (top) Professors
Albert Bifet, Bernhard Pfahringer and Eibe Frank and
(bottom), Aubrey Donovan and Jason Moult,
Fujitsu
New Zealand’s most
powerful supercomputer for artificial intelligence
applications has been installed at the University of Waikato
as part of its commitment positioning New Zealand as a world
leader in AI research and development.
The NVIDIA DGX
A100 is the first computer of its kind in New Zealand and is
the world’s most advanced system for powering universal AI
workloads. The machine has been referred to as the Ferrari
of computing because of how fast it can rapidly and
New Zealand s Richest Short Story Prize Launches With Acclaimed Writer Patricia Grace As Chief Judge For 2021 scoop.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scoop.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Monday, 15 March 2021, 4:03 pm
A University of Waikato academic has played a key role in
an international study researching human experience,
behaviour and attitudes towards the Covid-19
pandemic.
Dr Taciano Milfont joined the COVIDiSTRESS
global survey which gathered data from participants across
the globe in the early months of the pandemic last
year.
In a study published in Royal
Society Open Science, the team examined stress and worry
across over 170,000 respondents from 48
countries.
While there were no clear geographical
boundaries, respondents in Western European countries
expressed greater stress and worry about Covid-19 and more
trust in governments’ effort to handle the crisis than
Professor Patrick Leman has been appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor to the Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences (ALPSS) at the University of Waikato, joining from senior roles at King’s College London. <img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2102/142a280d6fa4519e03b8.jpeg' .