David B. Kirk
Private Equity Investor presso Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC
Profilo
B.S., M.S.
MIT Mechanical Engineering
M.S., Ph.D.
Caltech, Computer Science, minor in Computation and Neural Systems
Roles at NVIDIA included Chief Scientist, VP of Architecture, VP of Research, Co-VP of Software
Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Computer industry veteran, having built products at Raster Technologies, Apollo Computer, Hewlett Packard, Crystal Dynamics, and NVIDIA?
David Kirk, Venture Partner at DigitalDx, was a born engineer, always inventing and building things.
After Mechanical Engineering degrees at MIT, David worked on CAD and workstations, and this led him to making pictures with computers.
David specialized in computer graphics, VLSI, and analog computing at Caltech.
There was a strong synergy with these topics and neural networks, Analog VLSI, and neurobiology.
David drove graphics technology at video game developer Crystal Dynamics.
This led to NVIDIA, building graphics chips for 3D graphics for PCs.
As Chief Scientist and VP of Architecture, David led architecture and technology development for a series of products.
In a few short years, single chip 3D PC graphics accelerators surpassed the performance of million dollar graphics systems built by SGI and others.
During the course of this innovation, David was inventor or co-inventor of nearly 100 patents.
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) rapidly became the most powerful and versatile computing devices on the planet.
As GPUs became more programmable, they presented a programming challenge; modern computer science had not contemplated devices with hundreds of processors and thousands of threads.
The task of driving GPU adoption shifted from creating computer graphics to teaching parallel programming.
David founded the research division of NVIDIA, focusing on graphics architecture and algorithms, rendering applications and algorithms, and programming models.
Posizioni attive di David B. Kirk
Società | Posizione | Inizio |
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Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC
Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC (Digitaldx Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Investor | 01/12/2019 |
Precedenti posizioni note di David B. Kirk
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NVIDIA CORPORATION | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | 01/01/2009 |
Crystal Dynamics, Inc.
Crystal Dynamics, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is a game development and publishing company that has been in operation for 30 years. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, and has two additional studios located in Bellevue, WA, and Austin, TX. The company has developed and published over 30 games, including popular franchises such as Legacy of Kain and Tomb Raider, which has sold over 95 million copies worldwide. Crystal Dynamics is known for creating the iconic character Lara Croft, who has been a cultural icon for over 25 years and has appeared in more than 20 games. The CEO of the company is Philip Timo Rogers. The company was acquired by Eidos Plc/Old/ on November 9, 1998, for $47.50 million. | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | 01/01/1996 |
HP INC. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 01/01/1991 |
Formazione di David B. Kirk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Graduate Degree |
California Institute of Technology | Doctorate Degree |
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Società quotate in Borsa | 2 |
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HP INC. | Electronic Technology |
NVIDIA CORPORATION | Electronic Technology |
Aziende private | 2 |
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Crystal Dynamics, Inc.
Crystal Dynamics, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is a game development and publishing company that has been in operation for 30 years. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, and has two additional studios located in Bellevue, WA, and Austin, TX. The company has developed and published over 30 games, including popular franchises such as Legacy of Kain and Tomb Raider, which has sold over 95 million copies worldwide. Crystal Dynamics is known for creating the iconic character Lara Croft, who has been a cultural icon for over 25 years and has appeared in more than 20 games. The CEO of the company is Philip Timo Rogers. The company was acquired by Eidos Plc/Old/ on November 9, 1998, for $47.50 million. | Technology Services |
Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC
Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Digitaldx Ventures Management LLC (Digitaldx Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
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