It’s a windy Sunday morning on Japan’s remote Oshima Island, in Miyagi Prefecture, as Mitsue Murakami stops her car at an empty, modest-sized patch of ground. This was the site of the seaside inn that her family had operated for almost four decades. But in March 2011, the two-story building was swallowed by a towering… Read More
Closed doors. Strong drinks. Awkward conversations. Maybe it’s time to re-invent the annual company holiday party. NVIDIA’s done just that, again, inviting friends, family and community members to muddy their boots, dig irrigation ditches, paint murals and build everything from a farm stand to an outdoor teaching kitchen. Boredom is not an option. More than… Read More
Whether volunteering in company-sponsored events like Project Inspire and back-to-school activities, or through their personal efforts, NVIDIA employees are passionate about giving back to their communities. Three NVIDIANs who exemplify this spirit have recently had $1,000 grants awarded to their favorite charities by the NVIDIA Foundation, our employee-led corporate foundation. The awards are part of… Read More
Tomohiro Kashiwagi hops out of the white van that I’ve been following, as I ease my rental car into his driveway. “Do you smell that?” he asks. At first, it’s hard to identify. Fried chicken? Tempura? Neither, actually. The scent is coming from the tailpipe of Kashiwagi’s van. “This van runs on the biodiesel fuel that we make here,” he says, patting the hood.
NVIDIA employees are passionate about education. It’s the top priority each year when the NVIDIA Foundation, our employee-led corporate foundation, asks how it should direct its funds. While educational support is provided all year long through tutoring and mentoring programs, “back to school” season is the time when NVIDIANs from around the world really put… Read More
[Updated 8/24/12: Corrected volunteer hours.] Modeling DNA with pipe cleaners and beads. Learning about Newton’s laws of motion using plastic bottles and straws. Creating electrical circuits with aluminum foil and cardboard. These are activities thousands of Silicon Valley students will engage in this school year thanks to the efforts of more than 500 NVIDIANs from… Read More
Four nonprofit groups doing transformative work in China, India and Ghana have each been awarded $50,000 grants by the NVIDIA Foundation, our employee-led global citizenship organization. The High Impact Grant Program is one of the Foundation’s biggest and most popular initiatives. From nominating organizations they’re passionate about to reviewing grant applications, our employees are engaged… Read More
In addition to serving as Senior Product Manager for GPU Computing, Will Ramey is a key member of the NVIDIA Foundation’s Compute the Cure team. In this role, he’s volunteered his time to help define this important philanthropic initiative and guide its first funded project to launch. Cancer, which kills one person every minute in… Read More
If you had never visited Japan’s tsunami-ravaged coast until this week, the bleak landscape where homes and businesses once stood would be sobering. Having watched the relief effort and the recovery, my visits back to the Tohoku region have been increasingly reassuring. In fact, my recent visit with colleagues from PlaNet Finance Japan and Yukari… Read More
NVIDIA is using its passion for visual computing to help a dedicated group of volunteers and teachers in Korea enhance the artistic experience for the visually impaired. Launched in partnership with the Korean Art Association for the Blind (KAAB) in 2010, the NVIDIA Touch Visual program trains college art majors as volunteers to work with… Read More
For the 11th consecutive year, NVIDIA is awarding substantial grants to an elite group of graduate students engaged in pushing the frontiers of GPU computing research. A total of 12 grants of $25,000 each were made under the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program to students selected from hundreds of applications from three dozen countries. The students… Read More
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Nearly three dozen new CUDA Centers announced, bringing grand total toward 300 http://t.co/M1euGGQYjj posted May 21 2013 at 15:30:38 PM |
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Great read: CNET's @way4ne on “Tesla’s Path to the Upgradable Car” using NVIDIA GPUs http://t.co/Ktx2UpmXzJ posted May 21 2013 at 14:26:21 PM |
