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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

Learn more about accelerated computing in healthcare at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference taking place March 17-21 in San Jose, California. Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing Huang spoke about the ways AI will support the work of doctors, scientists and researchers advancing medicine.

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Smoked Lobster Day!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

students with print disabilities, I told my team that if we won an award, I'd cook smoked lobster for the whole company. I think we've signed up more schools and students for Bookshare.org in the last three weeks than in the last three years! When we submitted our proposal to the competition to provide accessible books to U.S.

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A Silicon Valley school is using virtual escape rooms to evaluate prospective students

The Verge

With things like open houses, campus tours, and in-person interviews off the table, applicants have fewer chances to experience their prospective schools — and admissions offices have fewer chances to meet their prospective students. The sixth grade game, called “The Annual Picnic,” was designed to evaluate how a student thinks on their feet.

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Bookshare.org and Lobster

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is crucial as we continue to rapidly expand into serving students. My tradition is to make smoked lobster for my wife, Virginia, and the local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, was kind enough to print this fact in an article titled: What notable business leaders are doing for Mom.

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Meet the Bookshare in-house summer volunteer team!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kelli Lee I recently graduated from Foothill College with an Associated Arts degree in Business Administration and will be attending San Jose State University in the fall. I worked with students with visual impairments as well as other teachers, focusing on needs and training to use assistive technology.

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." Conference 2009 – O’Reilly Conferences, May 19 – 21, 2009, San Jose, CA – Check out the video and presentation slides, too! " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." Conference 2009 - O’Reilly Conferences, May 19 - 21, 2009, San Jose, CA - Check out the video and presentation slides, too! "Indians Meru, Shepherds Junior School was connected to the internet for the very first time.

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