Data-Visualization Startup Map-D Fends Off Competition to Bank $100,000
What began as polite theater turned into a shark tank by the time a check for $100,000 cash was delivered— on the spot — to the winner of the GPU Technology Conference’s Early Stage Challenge. Given...
View ArticleHow Pixar Uses GPUs to Give Their Artists What They Need Most – Time to Play
Nemo. Monsters Inc. The Incredibles. When we watch Pixar’s entrancing movies, characters and plots seem to fly across the screen at the speed of a small child’s imagination. But until just a few years...
View ArticleHow Cosmic Rays and GPUs Can Help Detect Concealed Nukes
Building from groundbreaking work by Los Alamos National Laboratory, researchers at Decision Sciences are tapping the invisible cosmic rays passing through us to detect threats that we can’t see....
View ArticleWhy Your Doctor May Someday Prescribe Playing Video Games
And you thought his music was trippy. Thousands of attendees at our annual GPU Technology Conference had the opportunity to dive inside Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart’s brain Thursday. The tour of...
View ArticleResearchers Win Third Annual CUDA Achievement Award; Three New CUDA Fellows...
Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign snagged the Third Annual Achievement Award for CUDA Centers of Excellence, for their research with Fighting HIV with CUDA. The team was among...
View ArticleMore Than Skating By: How GPUs Help Vans Shoes Stay Fleet of Feet
It’s official. You can’t get around on planet Earth without the help of GPUs. Not only are sleek sports cars, fast trains, and hypersonic planes designed with the help of powerful graphics cards. Even...
View ArticleAudio Pioneer Dolby Wants to Change the Way You Look at Movies
Long known as an audio innovator, Dolby Labs wants to revolutionize how you look at movies and TV. The company has been working on displays that feature so-called “extended dynamic range,” or EDR,...
View ArticleNVIDIA and VMware Leading the Way to Make Advanced 3D Desktops Available for All
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate our partners at NVIDIA on a great GTC Conference last week in San Jose, California. A tremendous amount of news was announced at the show that...
View ArticleWatch This: Virtual Reality, Without the Glasses
Exquisite craftsmanship. Insanely small tolerances. Beautiful materials. Whoever says art is dead has never worn a luxury watch. The challenge: showing all these details to potential buyers from the...
View ArticleDefense & Aerospace at GTC: Transforming Data into Insight
Few organizations have a more urgent need for accurate, actionable information than defense, intelligence and security agencies. When life and safety hang in the balance, they rely on GPUs to perform...
View ArticlePixar Takes Starring Role as Hollywood Comes to Silicon Valley for NVIDIA’s...
The movie industry may have gone digital, but it’s still a business that’s all about stars. So, we’re bringing a huge roster of behind-the-camera talent to the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), March...
View ArticleFlying Robotic Vehicles, Smarter Social Networks to Dazzle at GPU Tech...
Training computers to act more like humans is among the most exciting frontiers in science. Identifying a face in a crowd of thousands. Self-driving cars. Processing massive amounts of complex,...
View ArticleHow GPUs Help Computers Understand What They’re Seeing
Researchers have been able to advance computerized object recognition to once unfathomable levels, thanks to GPUs. Building on the work of neural network pioneers Kunihiko Fukushima and Yann LeCun –...
View ArticleLive: Jen-Hsun Huang Kicks Off NVIDIA’s 2016 GPU Technology Conference
8:50—We’re 10 minutes or so out from the start of NVIDIA’s seventh annual GPU Tech Conference, kicked off by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. The first GTC took place in a set of hotel ballrooms a few blocks away....
View ArticleHome Field Advantage: Securing the San Francisco 49ers and Levi’s Stadium
Gearing up for game time takes on a new meaning when you manage security for Levi’s Stadium and its home team, the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. With a stadium that hosts 68,000 fans on football Sundays —...
View ArticleAudi Harnessing VR to Make Car Buying Virtually Irresistible
Audi VR experience advanced setup. Encouraged by rapid advances in VR technology, Audi is transforming its approach to selling vehicles. But it’s not always been a smooth ride. When it started working...
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