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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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The field requires broad training involving principles of computer science, cognitive psychology, and engineering. In computer vision, the AI group faculty are developing novel approaches for 2D and 3D scene understanding from still images and video, low-shot learning, and more.

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6 strategic imperatives for your next data strategy

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According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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Ambi Robotics secures $32M infusion to deploy its item-sorting robots in warehouses

TechCrunch

.” The co-founders of Ambi — including Ken Goldberg, the chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley — years ago discovered clever techniques to train robots in simulation and transfer those learnings to the real world. Image Credits: Ambi Robotics.

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Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M

TechCrunch

According to a survey from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems. The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand. The brothers moved to the U.S.

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Three Ways Retailers Can Use AR and VR to Boost Post-Sale Customer Experience

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A Google survey found that 66% of people said that they’re interested in using augmented reality (AR) for help when shopping, and Shopify revealed that interactions with products having 3D content showed a 94% higher conversion rate than those without it.

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Holographic Light Field Displays

Strategy Driven

In 3D displays, it’s worth a million. Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. According to Market Analysts, the Global 3D displays market is expected to grow by double digits with market size of over $100 billion in the next 5 years.

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