There are a few different ways to build IKEA furniture. Each will, ideally, lead to a completed couch or chair. But depending on the details, one approach will make more sense than the others. Got the instruction manual and all the right pieces? ...

As most of us learned in high school physics, ray tracing is an idea that has been around for centuries. Global illumination in computer graphics has a somewhat shorter history. The post A Ray-Tracing Pioneer Explains How He Stumbled into Global ...

For all the focus these days on AI, it’s largely just the world’s largest hyperscalers that have the chops to roll out predictable, scalable deep learning across their organizations. Their vast budgets and in-house expertise have been required to ...

When the Taliban blew up two 1,700-year-old statues of the Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in 2001, preservationists around the world were shocked, perhaps none more so than Ben Kacyra. A software developer who’d just sold his industrial mapping ...

Face time with top execs, pro sports tickets, free NVIDIA SHIELD TVs. These are just some of the perks for our summer interns, who spend three months or more working with world-class engineers and burnishing their skills while tackling on some of ...

You can learn a lot about a person in just one glance. You can tell if they’re tired, distracted or in a rush. You know if they’re headed home from work or hitting the gym. And you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes or Columbo to make these types of ...

More than 50 million people are afflicted with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases worldwide — a figure that’s growing as the average age of the global population rises. Yet effective treatments for nervous system disorders remain elusive due to ...

NVIDIA has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work with a team of university and industry researchers to enable near application-specific integrated circuit performance without sacrificing programmability for ...

With $2,000, you could take a round trip to Argentina, Hong Kong or your local hospital’s MRI machine. In dramatic ways, Subtle Medical, a Silicon Valley startup, is using AI to reduce the costs of magnetic resonance imaging scans — in terms of ...

An iconic puzzle from the 1980s — the Rubik’s Cube — is being used to bridge a very contemporary gap between deep learning and advanced mathematics. Pierre Baldi, the computer science professor overseeing the effort by a team of researchers at the ...