MSOE students were challenged by MSOE Regent and NVIDIA Senior VP of Software Engineering Dr. Dwight Diercks ’90 to use Rosie, the university’s very own supercomputer, to solve an interesting problem, answer a difficult question, go beyond their course work or improve an existing process using artificial intelligence (AI).

Individual students or student teams worked together to identify a problem to solve. The groups then presented their findings to a panel of judges which included Diercks, Nick Haemel ’02, MSOE Regent and NVIDIA VP of medical imaging and system software, and Dr. Derek Riley, MSOE computer science program director. Five total finalist groups presented in front of the panel and an auditorium full of their peers and other members of the MSOE community. The top three presentations were awarded prize money and received an NVIDIA GPU.