DAVID KIRK

David Kirk - Chief Scientist and Vice President of Architecture at NVIDIA

David Kirk is Chief Scientist and Vice President of Architecture at NVIDIA. He was previously Chief Scientist and head of technology for Crystal Dynamics, and prior to that worked on developing graphics hardware for engineering workstations at Apollo/Hewlett-Packard. David holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, and is the author/inventor of over 100 technical publications and patents in the area of computer graphics and hardware.

At Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, TX, David was the recipient of the ACM Siggraph Computer Graphics Achievement Award, honoring him for his contributions to the field. David will talk about advances in programmable graphics hardware, and realistic, cinematic rendering in real time. http://www.nvidia.com/