From gaming graphics to AI dominance: Nvidia's Jensen Huang receives America's highest science honor
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What just happened? Jensen Huang has received the National Medal of Science for turning the GPU from a graphics chip into a computing platform used in AI and scientific research. President Donald Trump presented the award to Nvidia's founder and CEO at a technology summit at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.
AMD CEO Lisa Su, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Elon Musk also received the National Medal of Science at the event. Dell founder Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, a separate federal honor.
Huang's citationhighlighted massively parallel computation and the breakthroughs it made possible. The recognition reflects a change in how GPUs are used: hardware originally developed to put images on a screen became an architecture for general-purpose computing,...
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