NVIDIA Names Stanford’s Bill Dally Chief Scientist, VP Of Research

NVidia has brought on board a new “Chief Scientist & VP of Research” in Bill Dally, chairman of Stanford University’s CS department.

SANTA CLARA, CA –JANUARY 28, 2009 –NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice President of NVIDIA Research. The company also announced that longtime Chief Scientist David Kirk has been appointed “NVIDIA Fellow.”

“I am thrilled to welcome Bill to NVIDIA at such a pivotal time for our company,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. “His pioneering work in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at NVIDIA today. As one of the world’s founding visionaries in parallel computing, he shares our passion for the GPU’s evolution into a general purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company.”

Bill Dally’s achievements including much work in large parallel computers, including the design of the J-Machine, the M-Machine, the torus Routing Schip, and more.  He’s recieved the IEEE Seymour Cray Award and the ACM Maurice Wikes award.  With him on staff, maybe NVidia is going to make an ever bigger push into GPGPU ?

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .