Seventy-five students from Houston Community College’s new two-year artificial intelligence program will attend NVIDIA’s GTC conference next month. Calling it “the greatest field trip of all time,” the program’s coordinator, G. Raymond Brown, sees it as a way to bring students in the program up to speed fast. The program at HCC, launched in August Read article >

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Thorsten Kurth still remembers the night he discovered his team broke the exascale barrier. On the couch at home at 9 p.m., he was pouring over the latest results from one of the first big jobs run on Summit, then the world’s top supercomputer, based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The 12-person team had spent Read article >

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From counting cows to detecting weeds to pollinating tomatoes, startups around the world are deploying AI technology to solve problems that farmers have struggled with since the dawn of time. Tomorrow’s World Food Day comes as startups are mobilized to change how our food is grown — with potentially wide implications for the economy, public Read article >

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For autonomous vehicles, what’s on the surface matters. While humans are taught to avoid snap judgments, self-driving cars must be able to see, detect and act quickly and accurately to operate safely. This capability requires a robust perception software stack that can comprehensively identify and track the vehicle’s surrounding environment. Startups worldwide are developing these Read article >

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GeForce NOW members have the power of our NVIDIA RTX Servers to throw at their favorite PC games. They can use that power to stream Crysis Remastered today, and the complete Crysis Remastered Trilogy starting tomorrow — with the best performance and RTX graphics for Founders and Priority members. With this great GFN Thursday also Read article >

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Devastating floods are making headlines worldwide, but advances in deep learning for detection could turn uncertainty over evacuations into yesterday’s news. Applying a data set of 66,000 images, data scientists have created an ensemble of models for predicting flood zones. And the models are generalizable for application to new geographies. The findings, published in a Read article >

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Devastating floods are making headlines worldwide, but advances in deep learning for detection could turn uncertainty over evacuations into yesterday’s news. Applying a data set of 66,000 images, data scientists have created an ensemble of models for predicting flood zones. And the models are generalizable for application to new geographies. The findings, published in a Read article >

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We are excited to announce that Oski Technology, a company specializing in formal verification methods, will be joining NVIDIA. Modern processors pack tens of billions of transistors, tiny on/off switches connected by billions of microscopic pathways. A bug in a single transistor can prevent a chip from operating correctly, requiring costly revisions to fix. Today, Read article >

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The leaves are changing, the weather’s getting colder and 23 new games are streaming from the cloud. October kicks off the way every first GFN Thursday of the month does — with news of great PC games coming to GeForce NOW. This fall’s harvest includes Far Cry 6, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Riders Read article >

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Two artists, if given the same paint set, would create distinct works — each showcasing their own points of view. This is especially likely if the artists were to hail from opposite ends of the world. Similarly, developers across the globe use the same tools to create different AI-based applications, each solving challenges relevant to Read article >

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Lennon and McCartney. Ashford and Simpson. Many of our all-time favorite tunes have come from songwriting duos. Now, anyone can find a canny compositional partner in AI. Maya Ackerman is the CEO of WaveAI, a Silicon Valley startup using AI and machine learning to, as the company motto puts it, “unlock new heights of human Read article >

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NVIDIA and VMware are marking another milestone in their collaboration to develop an AI-ready enterprise platform that brings the world’s leading AI stack and optimized software to the infrastructure used by hundreds of thousands of enterprises worldwide. Today at VMworld 2021, VMware announced an upcoming update to VMware vSphere with Tanzu, the industry’s leading virtualization Read article >

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Everything that moves will one day be autonomous, transforming industries and creating new business models. The NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference brings together the leaders, researchers and developers who are building this self-driving future. The virtual conference also features experts from industries transformed by AI, such as healthcare, robotics and finance. And it’s all free to Read article >

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Wildfires are responsible for about 6 percent of the planet’s CO2 emissions, according to Earth System Science Data. Australia’s bushfire season of 2019-2020 alone saw over 46 million acres of land devastated by wildfire, including the loss of almost half a billion mammals, birds and reptiles. NVIDIA Inception member OroraTech is addressing these issues head-on Read article >

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It would be an exaggeration to say you’ll never again read a news article overhyping a medical breakthrough. But, thanks to researchers at the University of Copenhagen, spotting hyperbole may one day get more manageable. In a new paper, Dustin Wright and Isabelle Augenstein explain how they used NVIDIA GPUs to train an “exaggeration detection Read article >

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Robots require huge training leaps in AI to become versatile general helpers, says robotics pioneer Pieter Abbeel, who laid out a vision for such neural network brains of the future. Home robots are electronically and mechanically possible today, Abbeel said, but they lack the AI know-how to navigate a wide variety of situations. “It’s just Read article >

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Each week GeForce NOW deals out a ready-to-play stream of games. While this week is no exception, it is exceptional as the GeForce NOW library increases with a b-e-a-utiful collection of games from one of the leaders in gaming, Electronic Arts. Four games from the popular Battlefield, Mirror’s Edge, Unravel and Dragon Age franchises released Read article >

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