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Virtual Design Prototyping & Review
Many years ago an engineer brought a product to a young technician to test. While it had the perfect layout for a radio frequency circuit, it was impossible to install in a rack because of a poorly located connector. Perhaps if the ESI Group’s virtual reality simulation tools had been available, this connector location faux…
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Learning Machine Learning By Playing a Game
Using a contest to learn how to help a machine learn is at the heart of a course, Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars, that Lex Fridman conceived of for MIT students. As Fridman says, the point of the course is to “make deep learning accessible to beginners.” The resources and lectures are available for all,…
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The Brains Behind an Autonomous Vehicle #CES2017
The rapid advancement of autonomous vehicle technology is thanks to a confluence of factors, such as low-cost sensors (thanks smart phone revolution) and the ongoing price/power/computational performance improvements for microprocessor and graphic processing units. These tools are enabling the practical application of machine learning and creating the electronic brains necessary to make the seemingly infinite driving…
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The Internet of Thinking Things
Nvidia’s president and CEO, Jensen Huang, wowed the crowd at this week’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) with technology advancements and ecosystems that will have an impact that ripples through many industries. There were the hardware announcements, such as the DGX-1V, which, according to Huang, provides the equivalent of 400 servers in 3 rack units for…
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Virtual Content Creation and More
Can a computer be a better artist than a human? After seeing the deep learning demonstration by Facebook at Nvidia’s 2016 GPU Technology Conference, it isn’t a huge leap to think supercomputers already have 99% of us beat when it comes to artistic ability. In the above interview, Micah Blumberg, who is involved at the…
