Tonie Hansen NVIDIA’s latest corporate responsibility report shares our efforts in empowering employees and putting to work our technologies for the benefit of humanity. Amid ongoing global economic concerns and pandemic challenges, this year’s report highlights ou…
NVIDIA’s latest corporate responsibility report shares our efforts in empowering employees and putting to work our technologies for the benefit of humanity. Amid ongoing global economic concerns and pandemic challenges, this year’s report highlights our ability to attract and retain talent that come here to do their life’s work while tackling some of the world’s Read article >
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NVIDIA’s 12th annual corporate social responsibility report, published today, shares our progress — and plans — to take care of employees, reach new sustainability goals and channel our tech to support the global community. Following a year of global hardship — the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and renewed calls for racial Read article >
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NVIDIA’s 12th annual corporate social responsibility report, published today, shares our progress — and plans — to take care of employees, reach new sustainability goals and channel our tech to support the global community. Following a year of global h…
NVIDIA’s 11th annual corporate social responsibility report comes as the world confronts COVID-19 and the fight for racial equality has been reignited. We’re inspired by the millions of frontline workers risking their lives to protect the billions sheltering at home to slow the spread of the disease. Ongoing protests in the U.S. are also underscoring Read article >
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Editor’s note: This is one of four profiles of finalists for NVIDIA’s 2018 Global Impact Award, which provides $200,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. The noisy, old MRI machine may get a new lease on life. Magnetic resonance imaging machines in recent years have faced Read article >
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Massive earthquakes, building-size ocean waves, understated warnings. These are some of the conditions that have led to incredible devastation caused by tsunamis. Working to change that, a team of researchers from the University of Málaga’s Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis and Applications group (known by its Spanish acronym, EDANYA) is using GPUs to refine tsunami early warning systems (TEWS). Read article >
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NVIDIA announced today that it has awarded $150,000 in Global Impact Awards to the University of Maryland and the Mayo Clinic for their pioneering research to address social, humanitarian and environmental problems. At the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, researchers who created BEAGLE, a revolutionary way of looking at how evolution develops, earned a […]
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Duane Storti has a bone to pick — 20 of them, in fact. Storti, a professor at the University of Washington, works with the Center for Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering at VA Puget Sound to study how the 20 bones that make up our feet work together while walking.
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Editor’s note: This is one of five profiles of finalists for NVIDIA’s 2017 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Another futuristic gadget from the world of Star Trek fantasy is a big step closer to becoming reality thanks to pioneering […]
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When it comes to brain tumors, it’s all in the genes. Cancer begins when genetic mutations make cells grow uncontrollably. Spotting certain mutations can point the way to the most effective treatments for the disease.
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Editor’s note: This is one of five profiles of finalists for NVIDIA’s 2017 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems.
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Editor’s note: This is one of five profiles of finalists for NVIDIA’s 2017 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. For more than a century, pathologists have diagnosed cancer by studying stained tissue slides under a microscope. Amit Sethi thinks it’s […]
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Your mother. Your colleague. Maybe even your child. We all know someone cancer has touched. That person might even be you. Two of five people in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute. The fight against cancer may have gone global. But for each […]
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A big part of achieving environmental sustainability is finding ways to make more efficient use of global resources. The three ideas below, with a little help from GPUs, address the challenges of creating renewable resources and managing existing ones — bringing our planet closer to a greener future. Using Plants for Renewable Fuels Ethanol and […]
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From pacemakers to Fitbits, digital technology plays a vital role in keeping people healthy. Now, some innovative companies are going beyond devices and gadgets by applying VR to expand the capabilities of the medical field. The same GPU technology used by game developers to animate lifelike VR versions of Mount Everest and Mars is being […]
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We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. Deep learning is transforming countless industries — from robots that assist the disabled and drones that navigate their way to emergencies, to supercomputers that diagnose disease and deepen our understanding of climate change. Self-driving cars are redefining how we think about transportation, shuttling people safely and potentially […]
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GPU computing has helped create amazing advances in self-driving cars, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Industries the world over are being transformed. Among my favorite uses for GPU computing: helping the planet. The three startups below are taking advantage of the technology for a purpose, with an eye to reducing energy use, cutting waste and […]
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Achieving an inclusive workplace is key to creating a culture of innovation, NVIDIA’s CEO co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang told a roomful of attendees at a session on inclusion at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference. With workplace diversity in high tech a hot topic, the event highlighted how bringing ideas from different groups within a company are important […]
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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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