NVIDIA Names Stanford's Bill Dally Chief Scientist, VP of Research

David Kirk Appointed NVIDIA Fellow

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation
today announced that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University's
computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice
President of NVIDIA Research. The company also announced that longtime Chief
Scientist David Kirk has been appointed "NVIDIA Fellow."
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"I am thrilled to welcome Bill to NVIDIA at such a pivotal time for our
company," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. "His pioneering work
in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at
NVIDIA today. As one of the world's founding visionaries in parallel
computing, he shares our passion for the GPU's evolution into a general
purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the
new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is
truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company."
"I would also like to congratulate David Kirk for the enormous impact he
has had at NVIDIA. David has worn many hats over the years -- from product
architecture to chief evangelist. His technical and strategic insight has
helped us enable an entire new world of visual computing. We will all continue
to benefit from his valuable contributions."
About Bill Dally
At Stanford University, Dally has been a Professor of Computer Science
since 1997 and Chairman of the Computer Science Department since 2005. Dally
and his team developed the system architecture, network architecture,
signaling, routing and synchronization technology that is found in most large
parallel computers today. At Caltech he designed the MOSSIM Simulation Engine
and the Torus Routing chip which pioneered "wormhole" routing and virtual-
channel flow control. His group at MIT built the J-Machine and the M-Machine,
experimental parallel computer systems that pioneered the separation of
mechanism from programming models and demonstrated very low overhead
synchronization and communication mechanisms. He is a cofounder of Velio
Communications and Stream Processors, Inc. Dally is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM and
has received the IEEE Seymour Cray Award and the ACM Maurice Wilkes award. He
has published over 200 papers, holds over 50 issued patents, and is an author
of the textbooks, Digital Systems Engineering and Principles and Practices of
Interconnection Networks.
About David Kirk
David Kirk has been with NVIDIA since January 1997. His contribution
includes leading NVIDIA(R) graphics technology development for today's most
popular consumer entertainment platforms. In 2006, Dr. Kirk was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his role in bringing high-
performance graphics to personal computers. Election to the NAE is among the
highest professional distinctions awarded in engineering. In 2002, Dr. Kirk
received the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his role in
bringing high-performance computer graphics systems to the mass market. From
1993 to 1996, Dr. Kirk was Chief Scientist, Head of Technology for Crystal
Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Kirk was
an engineer for the Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard Company. Dr.
Kirk is the inventor of 50 patents and patent applications relating to
graphics design and has published more than 50 articles on graphics
technology. Dr. Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies
and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates
breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game
consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer
market with its GeForce(R) products, the professional design and visualization
market with its Quadro(R) products, and the high-performance computing market
with its Tesla(TM) products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more
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