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David Kirk

American computer scientist who served as Nvidia's first Chief Scientist from 1997 to 2009 — contributing to the technical architecture of Nvidia's graphics processors and GPU computing platform.

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Ian Buck

American computer scientist who developed BrookGPU at Stanford — an early attempt at using GPUs for general computation — and was recruited by Jensen Huang to lead the development of CUDA, the programming framework that made Nvidia GPUs programmable for applications beyond graphics.

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Jensen Huang

Taiwanese-American entrepreneur — co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA — who built NVIDIA from a gaming GPU company into the foundational infrastructure company of the AI revolution — whose H100 and A100 chips became the 'shovels in the AI gold rush.'

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