Cancer doesn’t take nights off. To help beat the disease, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, rated one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in the world, is using virtualization to have its IT infrastructure work the late shift, as well. The NKI, which consists of both research facilities and cancer clinics, has dual goals: to… Continue reading Netherlands Cancer Institute Uses Virtualization to Enhance Patient Care, Advance Cancer Research
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From ER Visit to AI Startup, CloudMedx Pursues Predictive Healthcare Models
Twice Sahar Arshad’s father-in-law went to an emergency room in Pakistan complaining of frequent headaches. Twice doctors sent him home with a diagnosis of allergies. Turns out he was suffering from a subdural hematoma — bleeding inside the head. Following the second misdiagnosis, he went into a coma and required emergency brain surgery (and made… Continue reading From ER Visit to AI Startup, CloudMedx Pursues Predictive Healthcare Models
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2020
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2020 NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the fourth quarter ended Jan. 26, 2020, of $3.11 billion, up 41 percent from $2.21 billion a year earlier, and up 3 percent from $3.01 billion in the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $1.53, up 66… Continue reading NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2020
Look Under the Hood of Self-Driving Development at GTC 2020
The progress of self-driving cars can be seen in test vehicles on the road. But the major mechanics for autonomous driving development are making tracks in the data center. Training, testing and validating self-driving technology requires enormous amounts of data, which must be managed by a robust hardware and software infrastructure. Companies around the world… Continue reading Look Under the Hood of Self-Driving Development at GTC 2020
NVIDIA’s Neda Cvijetic Explains the Science Behind Self-Driving Cars
What John Madden was to pro football, Neda Cvijetic is to autonomous vehicles. No one’s better at explaining the action, in real time, than Cvijetic. Cvijetic, senior manager of autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA, drives our NVIDIA DRIVE Labs series of videos and blogs breaking down the science behind autonomous vehicles. A Serbian-American electrical engineer, Cvijetic… Continue reading NVIDIA’s Neda Cvijetic Explains the Science Behind Self-Driving Cars
Rise of the Snow Machines: AI Startup’s Robots Can Lay Waste to Snow
Florida native Terry Olkin, accustomed to warm weather, had a problem with his new home of Colorado: Snow blocked the driveway. “I couldn’t get my car out of the driveway to get to work — I thought, ‘Why aren’t there robots yet to do this?’” Olkin said. The moment led the busy entrepreneur and a… Continue reading Rise of the Snow Machines: AI Startup’s Robots Can Lay Waste to Snow
3D History in the Baking: NVIDIA RTX Accelerates Texture Design Tools in Substance Painter
When it comes to baking 3D textures and materials on designs, NVIDIA RTX gives Substance Painter an extra boost. Nikie Monteleone, a lead look development artist in the animation industry, creates 3D graphics and images by integrating colors with complex, stylized patterns on all types of surfaces. Part of her design process is sculpting and… Continue reading 3D History in the Baking: NVIDIA RTX Accelerates Texture Design Tools in Substance Painter
Farm to Frameworks: French Duo Fork Into Sustainable Farming with Robotics
What began as two classmates getting their hands dirty at a farm in the French Alps has hatched a Silicon Valley farming startup building robots in Detroit and operating in one of the world’s largest agriculture regions. San Francisco-based FarmWise offers farmers an AI-driven robotic system for more sustainable farming methods, and to address a… Continue reading Farm to Frameworks: French Duo Fork Into Sustainable Farming with Robotics
AI’s Mild Ride: RoadBotics Puts AI on Pothole Patrol
National Pothole Day is Jan. 15. Its timing is no accident. All over the Northern hemisphere, potholes are at their suspension-wrecking, spine-shaking worst this month. Thanks to AI, one startup is working all year long to alleviate this menace. Benjamin Schmidt, president and co-founder of RoadBotics, is using the tech to pave the way to… Continue reading AI’s Mild Ride: RoadBotics Puts AI on Pothole Patrol
NVIDIA launches simulation platform for robots
CES 2020 will be crawling with robots, thanks to Nvidia’s robotics platform that serves as the brains behind the wide variety of robots at the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. Toyota will show off its humanoid robot, T-HR3, which is based on Nvidia’s Isaac software development kit for robots. Rob Csongor, vice president… Continue reading NVIDIA launches simulation platform for robots