Supercomputing at 60 MPH: How Deep Learning Will Give Cars Superhuman...
Four lidar detectors. Four fisheye cameras. Two narrow field-of-view cameras. GPS. We may be cruising down a sun-dappled Silicon Valley expressway within the posted miles per hour. But every second,...
View ArticleCES 2016: Auto Partners Worldwide Showing Off NVIDIA-Powered Products
Let’s make a bold call about this year’s CES right now. If you’re looking for the sexiest product here, swing by the Daimler-Benz booth. The German automaker is just one of the automotive companies...
View ArticleAudi: Machine Learning to Give Cars Superhuman Capabilities
Machine learning will give cars the ability to analyze and learn from hundreds of thousands, even millions, of driving situations to learn better than any human being can, Audi execs told the press at...
View ArticleAccelerating AI with GPUs: A New Computing Model
Yann LeCun invited me to speak at this week’s inaugural symposium on the “The Future of AI” at NYU. It’s an amazing gathering of leaders in the field to discuss the state of AI and its continued...
View ArticleHow a VR Demo Scared Me Silly, and Convinced Me VR Is Serious
I’m not going to be that dude, I promised myself before my first VR experience. I’m not going to be the dude who ducks to avoid virtual bullets. Or shrinks back from the edge of a virtual cliff. None...
View ArticleCan a Computer Write a Hit Musical? Thanks to Machine Learning, We’re About...
Computers can drive, create recipes, even compose rap songs. London audiences will soon find out whether they can write a hit musical, too. The new show, “Beyond the Fence,” is the world’s first...
View ArticleDeep Learning Helps Robot Learn to Walk the Way Humans Do
Darwin the robot wobbles when he walks. And sometimes he falls. But unlike most robots, he learns from his mistakes — just like people do — and adjusts his technique on the fly. His baby steps could...
View Article8 Reasons Your Next Car Might Be Your First Personal Supercomputer
Take a supercomputer. Give it wheels. The result: a robot that can take you anywhere you want to go. No wonder self-driving cars were the hot topic at CES last week, and the talk of the Detroit Auto...
View ArticleMotown Magic: NVIDIA-Powered Cars Unveiled at Detroit Auto Show
It may be 10 degrees outside of the Cobo Convention Center in downtown Detroit, but things are heating up inside as the 2016 North American International Auto Show (aka the Detroit Auto Show) opens its...
View ArticleVulkan Developers Day Draws Top Talent to NVIDIA’s Silicon Valley Campus
Dozens of top graphics descended on our Silicon Valley headquarters Tuesday for our first ever Vulkan Developers Day. Attendees were eager to get a head start on porting their applications to Vulkan,...
View ArticleAlibaba’s AliCloud Bets on GPUs for Artificial Intelligence
AliCloud, the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, China’s largest ecommerce company, became the latest major player to turn to GPUs to speed up its artificial intelligence efforts. AliCloud...
View Article“Giant” Brings Big VR Experience to Sundance’s New Frontier Program
The five-minute VR film “Giant” is sure to be a highlight at this year’s Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program. Drawing on director and co-creator Milica Zec’s personal experiences as a child in...
View ArticleA Whale of a Deep Learning Story
Once so numerous that early settlers said you could cross Cape Cod Bay by walking atop their backs, the North Atlantic right whale is today one of the most endangered whale species. Decimated by...
View ArticleBig Data, Little Birds: How GPUs and Deep Learning Help Scientists Save...
Traveling to remote islands. Scrambling across cliffs to track their quarry. Installing acoustic sensors to detect its every move. Ornithologists — scientists who study birds — often have a little...
View ArticleGo East, Young Company: How to Triumph in China’s Frenetic Startup Scene
China may be the world’s largest startup incubator. Seven new companies are born every minute — or 10,000 a day — helped by a government campaign to support new businesses. That’s why we’re focusing on...
View ArticleWEpod Becomes First Driverless Car to Play in Traffic
A system of automated electric vehicles, known as WEpods, just made history by becoming the first self-driving shuttles to take to public roads. They’re the first vehicles in the world without a...
View ArticleTake Your Fantasy Football Pals to the Cleaners with GPU Computing
You’ve got $500 riding on the big game. And you’re just one field goal from cashing in when a big play threatens to sink your carefully considered bet. Do you scream in frustration? Or do you make a...
View ArticleDim Bulb, Bright Mind: GPUs Help Reveal Brain’s Vast Memory Store, Using...
The next time you forget an appointment, misplace your keys or can’t recall someone’s name, you’re going to have a hard time cooking up an excuse: A new study says your brain’s memory capacity is a...
View ArticleMore Users, Better Performance: NVIDIA GRID Boosts Blast Extreme in VMware...
What IT department wouldn’t want to be able to do more with their current infrastructure? With NVIDIA GRID, they can. NVIDIA GRID acceleration of Blast Extreme — a new protocol for optimizing the...
View ArticleStartup Behold.ai Uses Deep Learning to Better Detect Disease from Medical Scans
“All clear.” That’s the terrific news Jeet Samarth Raut’s mother heard after a radiological scan. Two weeks later, a second opinion revealed breast cancer. Certain that technology can do better, the...
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