NVIDIA’s enterprise partner program has grown to more than 1,500 members worldwide and added new resources to boost opportunities for training, collaboration and sales. The expanded NVIDIA Partner Network boasts an array of companies that span the globe and help customers across a variety of needs, from high performance computing to systems integration. The NPN Read article >

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In under a month amid the global pandemic, a small team assembled the world’s seventh-fastest computer. Today that mega-system, called Selene, communicates with its operators on Slack, has its own robot attendant and is driving AI forward in automotive, healthcare and natural-language processing. While many supercomputers tap exotic, proprietary designs that take months to commission, Read article >

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As its evocative name suggests, Abyss Solutions is a company taking AI to places where humans can’t — or shouldn’t — go. The brainchild of four University of Sydney scientists and engineers, six years ago the startup set out to improve the maintenance and observation of industrial equipment. It began by developing advanced technology to Read article >

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Michael Kirk and Raphael Attie, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, regularly face terabytes of data in their quest to analyze images of the sun. This computational challenge, which could take a year or more on a CPU, has been reduced to less than a week on Quadro RTX data science workstations. Kirk and Read article >

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Testing for COVID-19 has become more widespread, but addressing the pandemic will require quickly screening for and triaging patients who are experiencing symptoms. Lunit, a South Korean medical imaging startup — its name is a portmanteau of “learning unit” — has created an AI-based system to detect pneumonia, often present in COVID-19 infected patients, within Read article >

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Creating a labeled dataset for training an AI application can hit the brakes on a company’s speed to market. Clarifai, an image and text recognition startup, aims to put that obstacle in the rearview mirror. The New York City-based company today announced the general availability of its AI-assisted data labeling service, dubbed Clarifai Labeler. The Read article >

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Anyone can tell an eagle from an ostrich. It takes a skilled birdwatcher to tell a chipping sparrow from a house sparrow from an American tree sparrow. Now researchers are using AI to take this to the next level — identifying individual birds. André Ferreira, a Ph.D. student at France’s Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Read article >

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Academic medical centers worldwide are building new AI tools to battle COVID-19 —  including at Mass General, where one center is adopting NVIDIA DGX A100 AI systems to accelerate its work. Researchers at the hospital’s Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging are working on models to segment and align multiple chest scans, calculate lung Read article >

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Some dream of code. Others dream of beer. NVIDIA’s Eric Boucher does both at once, and the result couldn’t be more aptly named. Full Nerd #1 is a crisp, light-bodied blonde ale perfect for summertime quaffing. Eric, an engineer in the GPU systems software kernel driver team, went to sleep one night in May wrestling Read article >

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There are as many ways to define a smart city as there are cities on the road to being smart. From London and Singapore to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, they vary widely. Most share some common characteristics. Every city wants to be smart about being a great place to live. So, many embrace broad initiatives for Read article >

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Self-driving trucks are coming to an interstate near you. Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple and truck maker Navistar recently announced they will build self-driving semi trucks, powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform. The collaboration is one of the first to develop autonomous trucks, set to begin production in 2024. Over the past decade, self-driving truck Read article >

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During a stroke, a patient loses an estimated 1.9 million brain cells every minute, so interpreting their CT scan even one second quicker is vital to maintaining their health. To save precious time, Taiwan-based medical imaging startup Deep01 has created an AI-based medical imaging software, called DeepCT, to evaluate acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a type Read article >

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While a thunderstorm could knock out your neighborhood’s power for a few hours, a solar storm could knock out electricity grids across all of Earth, possibly taking weeks to recover from. To try to predict solar storms — which are disturbances on the sun — and their potential effects on Earth, NASA’s Frontier Development Lab Read article >

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While a thunderstorm could knock out your neighborhood’s power for a few hours, a solar storm could knock out electricity grids across all of Earth, possibly taking weeks to recover from. To try to predict solar storms — which are disturbances on the sun — and their potential effects on Earth, NASA’s Frontier Development Lab Read article >

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Your online loan application just got declined without explanation. Welcome to the AI black box. Businesses of all stripes turn to AI for computerized decisions driven by data. Yet consumers using applications with AI get left in the dark on how automated decisions work. And many people working within companies have no idea how to Read article >

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Only 846 people in the world hold the title of Woman International Master of chess. Evelyn Zhu, age 15, is one of them. A rising high school junior in Long Island, outside New York City, Zhu began playing chess competitively at the age of seven and has worked her way up to being one of Read article >

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