Featured Speakers
Full Conference | Full Conference One-Day | |
フルカンファレンス | 1日券 |
Level 1, Main Hall | |
Thursday, 17 December 2009 | 11:00 – 12:30 |
David Kirk
The Power of Heterogeneous Computing |
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In this featured talk, David Kirk reviews the evolution of GPU technology and shares his vision of how current work in academic and industrial labs around the world will be applied to future generations of computer graphics systems. David Kirk is an NVIDIA Fellow and served from 1997 to 2009 as NVIDIA's chief scientist, a role in which he led development of graphics technology for today's most popular consumer-entertainment platforms. In 2009, he received the California Institute of Technology's Distinguished Alumni Award, its highest honor, for his work in the graphics-technology industry. He was elected in 2006 to the National Academy of Engineering for his role in bringing high-performance graphics to personal computers. In 2002, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his role in bringing high-performance computer graphics systems to the mass market. |
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