The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The conferral of honorary doctoral degrees and the doctoral graduation ceremony were held on 23 November, with the conferral of honorary doctoral degrees toNvidiaFounder and CEO Jen-Hsun HuangAwarded an honorary doctorate in engineering.
1AI notes that in addition to Jen-Hsun Huang, who was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering, the list of honorees also includes actor Tony Leung (honorary doctorate in humanities), 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Michael Levitt (honorary doctorate in science), and Fields Medal winner David Mumford (honorary doctorate in science).
According to the HKUST Council, Jen-Hsun Huang has led NVIDIA to achieve great results in accelerated computing over the past 30 years. The graphics processing unit (GPU) developed by his team in 1999 is unrivaled.This technology has not only led to the development of a thriving computer gaming industry, but has also redefined the computer visual experience, laying the groundwork for the development of the AI era..
Jen-Hsun Huang gave a speech at the degree conferral ceremony. He said that NVIDIA has revolutionized every layer of the computing stack: from writing software using rules and logic to machine learning on observed data; from code running on CPUs to neural networks processing on GPUs.AI ushers in a new era of computing that will impact science across fields and industriesThe software industry today is racing to adopt machine learning and generative AI technologies, while the hardware industry is racing to build a trillion-dollar traditional computing infrastructure. The software industry today is racing to adopt machine learning and generative AI technologies, while the hardware industry is racing to build a trillion-dollar legacy computing infrastructure.
According to Jen-Hsun Huang, companies around the world are now racing to adopt AI to accelerate innovation and increase productivity. He also sees a surge in investment in robotics in heavy industry and manufacturing due to new breakthroughs in physical AI, with both cognitive intelligence-based models and physical intelligence-based models evolving rapidly, theThe time for robots is coming..