University of California, San Francisco, one of the world’s top medical schools for research, unveiled today a center to develop AI tools for clinical radiology — leveraging the NVIDIA Clara healthcare toolkit and the powerful NVIDIA DGX-2 AI system. As a founding partner of the Center for Intelligent Imaging, known as ci2, NVIDIA is working Read article >

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Meet DigiDoug, the first digital human to give a TED talk in real time. DigiDoug is the virtual version of Dr. Doug Roble, senior director of Software R&D at Digital Domain, the award-winning visual effects studio behind the characters and visual effects for movies like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Maleficent, Disney’s The Beauty Read article >

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Influential leaders and industry experts will give an inside look at AI policy matters at GTC DC, the largest AI conference in Washington, from Nov. 4-6. Key topics to be focused on include the national AI strategy, cybersecurity, healthcare, workforce training and diversity. Can’t-miss AI policy panels taking place at GTC DC include: AI in Read article >

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Billions of birds in North America make the trek south each fall, migrating in pursuit of warmer winter temperatures. But at least a quarter of them don’t make it back to northern breeding grounds in the spring, falling victim to predators, weather or man-made hazards like oil pits and cell towers. Many of these migratory Read article >

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Highlighting the growing excitement at the intersection of AI, 5G and IoT, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang kicks off the Mobile World Congress Los Angeles 2019 Monday, Oct. 21. The keynote, NVIDIA’s debut at the wireless industry’s highest-profile gathering in the U.S., will be the first of a slate of talks and training sessions from NVIDIA Read article >

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The Milky Way is on a collision course with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. But no need to revise your will — the two star systems won’t meet for around 4 billion years. “At some point in every galaxy’s life, it’ll undergo one of these mergers,” said William Pearson, Ph.D. student at the Netherlands Institute for Read article >

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The GeForce NOW Alliance has been spreading cloud gaming’s reach across the globe. That continued today as SAFMAR Group announced the launch of GeForce NOW in Russia as GFN.RU. That means the throngs of Russian gamers who have been patiently waiting to get into the GeForce NOW beta have a path to play. SAFMAR kicked Read article >

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to produce the complex imagery in films like Star Wars or Transformers? The man behind the magic, Colie Wertz, is here to explain. Wertz is a conceptual artist and modeler who works on film, television and video games. He sat down with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz to Read article >

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Some teens might feel the pressure of having an older sibling as accomplished as 19-year-old Kavya Kopparapu, a Harvard sophomore named last year a U.S. Presidential Scholar and one of TIME’s 25 Most Influential Teens. But high school senior Neeyanth Kopparapu, 17, is holding his own. He’s making his own mark with PDGAN, a deep Read article >

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In the wake of Amazon’s boffo Alexa voice debut, a University of Michigan team published pioneering research on building conversational AI, attracting a wave of customer interest. Jason Mars, a professor advising them, suggested they form a startup. And with that, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based conversational AI startup Clinc was born. Clinc’s conversational AI platform enables Read article >

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Move over, Emmy awards. Real-time ray tracing just stole the spotlight in broadcast television. Riot Games used The Future Group’s Pixotope mixed-reality virtual production software to deliver the first real-time ray-traced live broadcast, at The League of Legends Pro League regional finals in Shanghai earlier this month. For the opening ceremony of the esports show, Read article >

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Leading into TwitchCon — the world’s top gathering of livestreamers — we’re announcing the RTX Broadcast Engine, a new set of RTX-accelerated software development kits that use the AI capabilities of GeForce RTX GPUs to transform livestreams. Powered by dedicated AI processors called Tensor Cores on RTX GPUs, the new SDKs enable virtual greenscreens, style Read article >

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In the future imagined by Pinar Yanardag, a postdoctoral research associate at MIT Media Lab, AI will collaborate with humans, not replace them. This is the concept behind her project, “How to Generate (Almost) Anything,” which she created with other students from the MIT Media Lab and professionals in the Boston area. Yanardag sat down Read article >

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One of the world’s leading architecture firms is taking its path-breaking designs to the next level with ray tracing, using NVIDIA RTX technology. Zaha Hadid Architects, based in London, has created some of the world’s most singular building designs. Its specialty research unit, Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality (ZHVR) Group, has recently partnered with the team Read article >

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Despite being treatable, tuberculosis kills 1.6 million people every year. This is because TB treatment is time- and cost-intensive, requiring extensive patient monitoring. In developing countries, where the disease is most deadly, monitoring involves a form of testing that has been used for hundreds of years. Clinicians study samples of lung fluid (called sputum) under Read article >

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Bananas are the world’s favorite fruit. If you don’t count tomatoes as fruit. (And really, who does?) But banana crops around the globe are afflicted by diseases and pests that threaten the livelihoods of small-scale farmers, most of whom rely on just one or two cash crops and lack the resources commercial farms use to Read article >

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University of Waterloo researcher Alexander Wong didn’t have enough processing power for his computer vision startup, so he developed a workaround. That workaround is now the company’s product. Ontario-based DarwinAI, founded by a team from the Ontario-based university, provides a platform for developers to generate slimmed-down models from neural networks. This offers a quicker way Read article >

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Security guards. Closed circuit TV. Anti-theft tags and alarms. Retailers are constantly battling shoplifters to protect store profits — up to 50 percent of which are lost to theft. Now, they have a new weapon in their armory. ThirdEye Labs, a London-based company and member of Inception, NVIDIA’s startup incubator, is combining off-the-shelf CCTV cameras Read article >

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Automated yet human-like customer service. Professional workstation performance on any connected device. Cinematic-quality PC gaming. These are a few of the diverse capabilities coming to cloud users with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs now in general availability on AWS in North America, Europe and Asia via new Amazon EC2 G4 instances. NVIDIA T4 GPUs, supported Read article >

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The center of the AI ecosystem shifts to D.C. this fall, when the GPU Technology Conference arrives at the Reagan Center in Washington, from Nov. 4-6. GTC DC will bring together some 3,000 attendees from government and industry for three days of networking and more than 100 sessions, including presentations, panel talks and workshops focused Read article >

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