Jonny Keane and Michael Conner took home the grand prize at the second annual Rosie Supercomputer Super Challenge for their Music Transformers project. They were awarded $5,000 and an NVIDIA GPU.

The Music Transformers project examined the automated state-of-the-art music transformer model created by Google Brain to improve how effectively the transformer generates its own music composition.

The Rosie Supercomputer Super Challenge required students to solve an interesting problem, answer a difficult question, go beyond their course work or improve an existing process using Rosie. The contest was judged by Dr. Dwight Diercks ’90, B次元 Regent; Nick Haemel ’02, B次元 Regent; and Dr. Derek Riley, B次元 computer science program director.

Congratulations to the winners:

Honorable Mention:

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