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Star Power: Why the World’s Largest Telescope Relies on GPUs
The universe’s oldest, most distant galaxies may hold clues about the future of our own. But even with the world’s largest telescope, scientists won’t be able to see those galaxies clearly without our...
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Can’t Get a Cab? NTT DOCOMO Helps Taxis Get You
Can’t get a taxi? We can relate. But that’s only half the reason ride-sharing services such as Lyft and Uber are such a success. It turns out if you’re a taxi driver you have an even bigger problem:...
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VR Wormholes GTC 2018 Attendee into the World of ‘Ready Player One’
While I was at the GPU Technology Conference all week attending sessions and writing blogs, my son was at an opening night screening of “Ready Player One,” the new Steven Spielberg virtual reality...
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Snack Attack! Robby the Self-Driving Robot Delivers Food to GTC Attendees
If you’re at GTC this week and your stomach is rumbling between meals, you’re in luck. Robby, a self-driving robot from Robby Technologies, will be packed with snacks and roaming outside the halls of...
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Robot See, Robot Do: Bots Learn by Watching Human Behavior
Robots following coded instructions to complete a task? Old school. Robots learning to do things by watching how humans do it? That’s the future. Stanford’s Animesh Garg and Marynel Vázquez shared...
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NVIDIA Awards $50,000 Fellowships to Ph.D. Students for GPU Computing Research
Our NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program this week awarded up to $50,000 each to 11 Ph.D. students involved in GPU computing research. The fellowship program supports graduate students doing GPU-based...
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From AI to Zzzz: MIT, Mass General Aim Deep Learning at Study of Sleep Stages
Sleeplessness is a national epidemic. It’s hard to solve and complicated by how difficult it is to study. One in three U.S. adults generally don’t sleep enough, according to the Center for Disease...
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More Power, Less Tower: AI May Make Aircraft Control Towers Obsolete
Airport control towers are an emblem of the aviation industry. A Canadian company wants to use its technology to make them a relic of the past. Airport buffs may mourn the change. But Ontario-based...
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NVIDIA, Canon Medical Systems Partner to Accelerate Deep Learning in Healthcare
Healthcare represents one of the biggest opportunities in deep learning, and we’re partnering with Canon Medical Systems, Japan’s largest medical systems supplier, to develop the research...
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Insights from a High Schooler at NVIDIA’s GTC
Editor’s note: Meet Jocelin Su, a 2016 Stanford AI4ALL (formerly SAILORS) alumna. Below, Jocelin shares her learnings from NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference. Eight AI4ALL alumni attended the...
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Gift of Garb: How AI Helps Fashion Followers Choose the Best Dress
Wardrobes could sharpen up for online shoppers everywhere, while retailers cut costs, thanks to AI that puts clothes on fashion models in a virtual photo shoot. A fully staffed, photo fashion shoot can...
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SETI: AI Helping Humanity Overcome Its Limitations
Few organizations are as bullish on AI as the SETI Institute. Best known for its ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the institute is engaged in broad range of complicated science. And...
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It’s Training Cats and Dogs: NVIDIA Research Uses AI to Turn Cats into Dogs,...
It turns out a leopard can change its spots. Thanks to NVIDIA researchers’ new GPU-accelerated deep learning technique, a leopard — or at least a picture of it — can simultaneously turn into a house...
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AI-Enabled Auditors: Finding Fraud Using Deep Autoencoder Networks
Accounting fraud has long eaten into the revenue of some businesses, but auditors are enlisting a new defensive tool: artificial intelligence. A typical organization can lose 5 percent of its annual...
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Night of the Living Bacteria: How GPUs Aid Fight Against Zombie-Like Bugs
When health officials use words like “nightmare” and “apocalypse” to describe a problem, it’s probably time to pay attention. We’re in a war with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and we’re losing....
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Crowning Achievement: Using Adversarial Networks to Create Customized Dental...
It wasn’t long ago that dental crowns were produced on assembly lines, with rows of workers engaged in the physical effort of building and shaping them. To make that process faster, more precise and,...
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Risky Business: Tapping AI to Assess and Limit Risk in M&A
Assessing risk is a concern in most industries, although perhaps never more so than following a merger or acquisition. It turns out AI may be just the tool to help. GPU Technology Conference attendees...
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iNaturalist: An AI-Powered App to Crow About on Earth Day
This April 22 put a little AI in your Earth Day. Whether you’re cleaning up a beach, planting a tree or starting a garden, iNaturalist makes it easy to get in touch with nature. iNaturalist is a...
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NVIDIA, SoftBank Incubator DEEPCORE Team Up to Fuel AI Startups in Japan
NVIDIA and DEEPCORE, a Tokyo-based startup incubator owned by SoftBank, are working together to support AI startups and promote university research programs across Japan. Launched earlier this year...
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Doctors Are Superheroes Today, Superhumans Tomorrow
AI is the most important technology of our time, while early detection is the most important medical challenge of our time. Incredible breakthroughs in AI are making it possible for doctors to see...
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