Nvidia said it “reinvented computer graphics” with the unveiling of its Nvidia Turing graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. The architecture will be the foundation for a whole family of future graphics chips that will focus on real-time ray tracing, or highly realistic, physically accurate graphics. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, s…Read More
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Turing Prize Winners Paved the Way to Smartphone Chips
Stanford’s John Hennessy, now chair of Google parent Alphabet, and Berkeley’s David Patterson developed the Reduced Instruction Set Computer in the 1980s. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ab1a93aec5e9b19adb81e03/master/pass/TuringAward-Hennessey-web.jpg
Lost Alan Turing letters found in university filing cabinet
A huge batch of letters penned by visionary British cryptographer Alan Turning has been found at the University of Manchester. Professor Jim Miles was tidying a storeroom when he discovered the correspondence in an old filing cabinet. At first he assumed the orange folder, which had Turing’s name on the front, had simply been re-used […]
This color-shifting lizard’s skin morphs just as Alan Turing predicted
There’s a particular type of lizard that changes the color of its spots as it ages — and researchers have just discovered the mathematical rules that govern this peculiar metamorphosis. Meet the ocellated lizard, a 30-to-35 inch reptile that lives Europe. These lizards are born with unimpressive brown and white polka dots. But as they […]