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.
Contributed to the technical foundation of Nvidia's GPU architecture — the graphics algorithms and programming model that became the basis for CUDA and general-purpose GPU computing.
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