Jamie Beckett
Jamie covered artificial intelligence (especially deep learning) and science for the NVIDIA blog. Before NVIDIA, she was director of communications at Stanford’s School of Engineering, and served as managing editor for Cisco’s newsroom and for HP Labs’ website. She began her career as a journalist, and spent a decade at the San Francisco Chronicle. Earlier she worked at the Stamford Advocate, in Connecticut, where she was part of a team that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Brain Power: How AI Can Head Off Brain Damage
Two million cells a minute. That’s how quickly brain damage happen when the cells get no oxygen in a stroke or in some brain injuries. Both can have tragic consequences… Read article >
Path Math: How AI Can Find a Way Around Pathologist Shortage
Ever since a Dutch cloth merchant accidentally discovered bacteria in 1676, microscopes have been a critical tool for medicine. Today’s microscopes are 800,000 times more powerful than the human eye,… Read article >
Hidden Figures: How AI Could Spot a Silent Cancer in Time to Save Lives
It’s no wonder Dr. Elliot Fishman sounds frustrated when he talks about pancreatic cancer. As a diagnostic radiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the world’s largest centers for pancreatic… Read article >
This Is Your Disease on Drugs: How an AI Startup Could Defeat Now Unbeatable Bugs
An aging population. Antibiotic-resistant infections. Afflictions by the hundreds that still lack a cure. The need for new medications is higher than ever, but so is the cost and time… Read article >
Night of the Living Bacteria: How GPUs Aid Fight Against Zombie-Like Bugs
When health officials use words like “nightmare” and “apocalypse” to describe a problem, it’s probably time to pay attention. We’re in a war with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and we’re losing. Antibiotics… Read article >
It’s Training Cats and Dogs: NVIDIA Research Uses AI to Turn Cats Into Dogs, Lions and Tigers, Too
It turns out a leopard can change its spots. Thanks to NVIDIA researchers’ new GPU-accelerated deep learning technique, a leopard — or at least a picture of it — can… Read article >
Star Power: Why the World’s Largest Telescope Relies on GPUs
The universe’s oldest, most distant galaxies may hold clues about the future of our own. But even with the world’s largest telescope, scientists won’t be able to see those galaxies… Read article >
Hail Yes: How Deep Learning Could Improve Forecasts for Damaging Storms
Imagine tens of thousands of golf balls falling from the sky at more than 100 mph, and you’ll get an idea of the damage hail can wreak. In just a… Read article >
To Infinity and Beyond: NVIDIA Research Lets VR Users Explore Vast Virtual Worlds
Virtual worlds are infinite, but your living room is not. Today, the size of physical space limits VR users’ ability to move in boundless virtual space. And VR isn’t particularly… Read article >