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Ian Buck

Ian Buck is vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA. NVIDIA GPUs run the world's AI from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI and dozens of AI pioneer startups. As the head of product for hyperscale AI, Buck manages NVIDIA's AI hardware and software products to develop and deploy today's generative AI in partnership with these companies. Buck helped kickstart using graphics processors for general-purpose computing. Buck joined NVIDIA in 2004 after completing his PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where he was development lead for Brook, the forerunner to generalized computing on GPUs. Inventor of CUDA, the established standard for GPU computing used by millions of developers, researchers and scientists, Buck has testified before the U.S. Congress on artificial intelligence and has advised the White House on the topic and works with U.S. and other countries to build national AI supercomputers to advance scientific simulation and AI.