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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). One of the first applications for CUDA was in oil and gas exploration, processing the mountains of data from geological surveys.

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Top 10 AI graduate degree programs

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News & World Report ranks the best AI graduate programs at computer science schools based on surveys sent to academic officials in fall 2022 and early 2023 in chemistry, computer science, earth science, mathematics, and physics. Here are the top 10 programs that made the list that have the best AI graduate programs in the US.

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Is Java Still Popular with Software Developers?

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Java became open source in 2006, and Oracle took over stewardship when it acquired Sun in 2010. There are also advanced tree and 3D graphical models that developers find helpful. A survey conducted by InfoWorld indicates that 37% of Java developers are using Java 8, and the premier support for that version ended in March 2022.