Bill Dally, head of NVIDIA's research efforts and a prominent computer scientist, will deliver a keynote address at Hot Chips, an annual conference of leading processor and system architects. Dally will expound on the driving factors behind accelerated computing and artificial intelligence in his presentation, according to an Aug. 21 NVIDIA news release.
"It’s a really exciting time to be a computer engineer," Dally said in the release.
Dally will discuss the advancements in GPU silicon, systems and software that are driving accelerated computing and AI, particularly focusing on techniques like mixed-precision computing, high-speed interconnects and sparsity to propel large language models that underlie generative AI to new horizons, the release reported.
Dally's keynote, scheduled for 9 a.m. PT Aug. 29, will initiate the third day of the Hot Chips event. Virtual attendance registration is available online. The live event, hosted at Stanford University in Palo Alto, has already reached full capacity, according to the release.
Boasting a career spanning nearly 40 years, Dally has been a pioneer in developing many of the fundamental technologies that underpin modern supercomputers and networking architectures. As the leader of NVIDIA Research, he guides a global team of more than 300 experts who are crafting innovations for various applications, including AI, high-performance computing (HPC), graphics and networking, the release said.
Before joining NVIDIA in 2009 as the chief scientist and senior vice president of research, he chaired Stanford University's computer science department for approximately four years. Dally holds membership in the National Academy of Engineering and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery, the release reported.
His extensive contributions encompass four textbooks, more than 250 published papers and more than 120 patents. He has been honored with the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award and ACM Maurice Wilkes Award, according to the release.
