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Better Batting with CUDA: How GPU-based Brain Research Helped Japanese Robot Swing for the Fences

The human cerebellum is a mysterious thing. Responsible for motor control, it’s the reason why we can walk, run, or learn to hit a baseball without having to consciously think through the mechanics of what we’re doing. These are some of the tasks that robots – with their ‘electronic’ brains – struggle with most. Now… Read More

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NVIDIA CEO: You Bring the Devices, We’ll Bring the Graphics

Enterprise computing is in a state of upheaval, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told a standing-room only crowd of hundreds at the annual RTT Excite conference in Munich, sponsored by RTT, a leading company in high-end 3D visualization. Employees are ditching company-issued black-and-grey boxes for their own devices. They’re swapping heavy laptops and deskbound workstations for… Read More

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Ralph Gilles: How Chrysler Is Using Technology to Step on the Gas

Art and science. Design and technology. Style and substance. These aren’t competing ideas, Ralph Gilles, Chrysler’s senior VP for product design, explained in his keynote at our GPU Technology Conference, focusing on how new technology has accelerated automotive design. Starting with the Chrysler 300 – a much-acclaimed sedan introduced in 2003 – Gilles has led… Read More