Duke University researchers have received NVIDIA’s $150,000 Global Impact Award for their work using GPU-powered imaging techniques that give surgeons a 3D, stereoscopic live feed while performing highly sensitive ocular microsurgery. Nearly 30 applications from 13 nations were submitted for the annual award, which recognizes researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, […]

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Volvo has long been synonymous with safety. Now, the Swedish automaker’s latest efforts could make self-driving cars synonymous with safety, too. More than 500 attendees at our annual GPU Technology Conference heard how Volvo plans to use NVIDIA DRIVE as part of its “Drive Me Project,” which will put 100 test vehicles on a defined […]

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Speech recognition has come a long way from its clunky beginnings to today, when it’s used to interact with everything from cellphones to cars to computers. But even faster, even more accurate speech recognition could be on the horizon, thanks to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Google Brain. The researchers took a new approach to […]

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As artificial intelligence sweeps across the technology landscape, NVIDIA unveiled today at its annual GPU Technology Conference a series of new products and technologies focused on deep learning, virtual reality and self-driving cars. Before a record crowd of more than 5,000 scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and global press, NVIDIA CEO and Co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the world’s […]

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If you want the chance to gain deeper insight into NVIDIA graphics virtualization strategies and technologies, including advance knowledge of future projects, then apply now for the NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor Program. Those selected for the program will be key technologists in the broader GRID customer and partner community. They’ll have the opportunity to work […]

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While NVIDIA is best known for our hardware platforms, our software plays a key role advancing the state of the art of GPU-accelerated computing. This body of work — the NVIDIA SDK — today got a significant update, announced at our annual GPU Technology Conference. It takes advantage of our new Pascal architecture and makes it easier than ever […]

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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on Tuesday showed how our Iray technology can create interactive virtual worlds with unparalleled fidelity. Imagine being able to see any combination of options for a car interior you’re thinking of buying — in photorealistic detail — and from any angle. Or being able to experience the feeling of a new […]

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Can a machine become an artist? One of the most beautiful demos at this year’s GPU Technology Conference might help make up your mind. The DCGAN, or deep convolutional generative adversarial networks, demo has a computer take thousands of works of art that share similar features — say seascapes from Victorian artists. It then processes […]

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Drivers have always needed maps, and self-driving cars are no exception. In fact, highly accurate maps are crucial to making autonomous vehicles a reality. Enter NVIDIA’s end-to-end mapping platform for self-driving cars announced today by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the GPU Technology Conference. This system is designed to help automakers, map companies and startups […]

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Fernando Alonso’s terrifying F1 crash last month at the Australian Grand Prix shows how far humans will push a car for the pursuit of performance. What if we could push racecars to the new levels of performance without endangering lives? To find out, we’re putting our DRIVE PX 2 AI supercomputer into the cars that […]

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Virtual reality isn’t just at the heart of a new era of entertainment. It’s also for serious business. That’s why we’re helping developers, businesses, OEMs and independent software vendors with our NVIDIA VR Ready program, which ensures they have the tools and technologies to create and enjoy the best possible professional VR experience.   “Enterprise […]

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Artificial intelligence. Autonomous vehicles. Virtual reality. The hottest trends in technology right now all converge on the GPU, and that’s why we can’t wait to start our GPU Technology Conference.   NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will give the opening keynote at our seventh annual GTC, in Silicon Valley, Tuesday at 9 am Pacific. We won’t […]

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The University of California, Los Angeles is now home to one of the world’s most advanced surgical environments, thanks to Surgical Theater’s new medical Virtual Reality (mVR) technology. And you can get a peek at it at our GPU Technology Conference next month, in Silicon Valley. Led by Alon Zuckerman, an expert in advanced flight […]

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GPU startup MapD is on a roll. The big data analytics company, which won our first $100,000 Early Stage Challenge in 2014, today unveiled its visual analytics software that uses GPUs to crunch large datasets at lightning speeds. The MapD database uses GPUs to process SQL queries in parallel across nearly 40,000 cores per server, yielding […]

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SANTA CLARA, CA - NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) will present at the following upcoming event for the financial community: