Snow, rain and gloom of night are minor concerns compared to the big data problem the U.S. Postal Service faces when coordinating delivery of more than 150 billion pieces of mail each year. After experiencing increased delays and instances of fraud, ...

The world depends on coral reefs, but they’re disappearing – ravaged by climate change, coastal development, overfishing and pollution. With a quarter of Earth’s reefs already gone, scientists are racing to save them, and they’re getting a big boost ...

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose’s Tech Museum welcomes tinkerers in all things electronic. Its latest exhibit takes this idea a step further, inviting visitors to play with the underpinnings of life itself. The first bio-tinkering ...

NVIDIA announced today that David Shannon, who serves as executive vice president, chief administrative officer and secretary, has informed the company that he will retire at the end of the calendar year.

Great hardware needs great software. To help data scientists and developers make the most of the vast opportunities in deep learning, we’re announcing today at the International Supercomputing show, ISC16, a trio of new capabilities for our deep ...

The only thing as daunting as the computational problem of simulating a tornado may be standing in the path of an actual one. Leigh Orf is one of the leading computational scientists studying tornadoes. Based at the Cooperative Institute for ...

ISC16 - To meet the unprecedented computational demands placed on modern data centers, NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe servers, which delivers massive...

Artificial intelligence powers many of Baidu’s most important products, from search to services. Speech recognition has expanded accessibility, natural language processing helps answer user questions, and image recognition offers more intuitive ...

When you’re headed into surgery, you want a doc with unmatched skill, proven experience and steady hands. Or maybe just a really good robot. Researchers at the Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., are advancing this pursuit by ...

Simulating the airflow through jet engines. Visualizing how tornadoes form. Modeling weather conditions for climate prediction. Researchers are tackling some of the world’s toughest challenges using a combination of supercomputers, artificial ...