InterviewsSince 1997, Dr. Kirk is responsible for defining the vision for the Company's next generation hardware architecture, including the market-leading NVIDIA GeForce family of graphics processing units (GPUs) for desktop PCs and leading game consoles such as the highly anticipated Playstation3, as well as the GoForce handheld GPU for cell phones and other handheld devices. These technologies include hardware texture mapping, programmable shading, data parallel processing, and more.
Dr. Kirk is also credited with the observation that data parallel GPU performance accelerates faster than scalar CPU performance, exceeding Moore's Law.
Dr. Kirk is the inventor of 50 patents, patent applications and articles relating to graphics design and has published more than 50 articles on graphics technology. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. In 2002, Dr. Kirk received the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.
- bit-tech.net - 7/11/2005
- ExtremeTech - 12/21/2004
- FiringSquad - 12/29/2003
- SIGGRAPH 2002 - 7/28/2002
- HotHardware - 6/14/2002
- nV News - 12/28/2001
- The Tech Report - 12/19/2001
