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VP of Developer and Performance Technology at NVIDIA, cyclist, wave sailor, rock climber, lover of food and beverages. Opinions expressed are my own.

San Jose, CA
Joined May 2015
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Bring Fortnite to life with #RTXOn. NVIDIA ray-traced reflections, shadows, and global illumination will take your visual experience to a whole new level. Learn more about RTX, DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex in Fortnite → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/cam…
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Can you survive the night? 💀🌘 Experience the amazing effects of ray tracing as you fight for your survival in this all-new custom Fortnite RTX map. Map Code: 5511-7018-2692 Learn more → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/cam…
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This is nuts!
This unfeasibly tiny 3D printed Star Trek ship can move under its own power buff.ly/2HBKyd3
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So very proud of what the DRIVE Sim and Omniverse teams have accomplished.
Watch how the realism of NVIDIA DRIVE Sim on Omniverse reduces the sim-to-real gap for faster iteration in AV development: nvda.ws/34udPhg
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Announcing NVIDIA Maxine - cloud-native #AI-based capabilities for video conferencing. Developers can add real time audio & video effects, closed captioning and cut bandwidth costs dramatically. Apply for early access today. #GTC20

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At #GTC20, NVIDIA’s Matthew Rusch will present a highlight reel of code migration from DirectX to Vulkan ray tracing. He will also share recommendations for tooling setup and techniques to get your ray tracing journey started. #RTXOn

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Big effort across the rendering and Fortnite teams on this one, as well as a welcome assist from some friendly NV engineers. Very happy with upgrade. And of course all the improvements are (or soon to be) in the ue4 github. Congrats to everyone who worked hard on this one. :)
See Fortnite in a whole new light ✨ Today PC players can enable ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS if you use supported @NVIDIAGeForce RTX GPU cards and DirectX12! Read about all the #FortniteRTX info in our blog: fn.gg/RayTracing
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NVIDIA Broadcast is here! Download: nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/bro… Setup Guide: nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/gui… Remember to first: 1) Update to the 456.38 driver. 2) Uninstall RTX Voice. And if you try it, please send us feedback so we can improve it! nvidia.com/broadcast-feedbac…
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Certified young person Paul Rudd wants you to wear a mask. Listen up:
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Some absolutely mindblowing work by guys on my team, working closely with the amazing development team at Epic.
Following an exciting day of announcements, @nvidia dive into DLSS, RTXGI, and the future of ray-traced caustics! #RTXOn #UE4 Make sure to join us live for Inside Unreal—Thursday at @ 2PM EDT. 📺 twitch.tv/unrealengine

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The latest NVIDIA Ampere #GPU architecture, unleashed in May to power the world's supercomputers and hyperscale data centers, has come to gaming. nvda.ws/2YXc5LH
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Favorite part of our launch today: "If the last 20 years [of Gaming] was amazing, the next 20 will seem nothing short of science fiction. Today's Ampere launch is a giant step into the future. This is our greatest generational leap ever."
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No commute. No lunch breaks. No water cooler discussions. No vacations. Not surprising that productivity is same or higher. But is it healthy? Is it sustainable? I wonder.
A full 94% of employers surveyed said their company productivity was actually the same (67%) or higher (27%) than it was before the pandemic, even though so many of their employees have been working remotely this year. cnn.it/34DLR4p
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"Just the fact that you are a woman brings some beautiful unique-ness to the table." Dr. Christyl Johnson, Deputy Director for Technology and Research Investments at @NASAGoddard, explains how being a woman in a male-dominated field can offer a different perspective:
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Lost a friend this week. Rest in peace, Lan.
Landon Montgomery, cofounder of Gearbox Software, passed away this week. He brought his passion & gifts to NVIDIA last year remastering classic PC games for a new generation of gamers. We’re deeply saddened by his passing. Our condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
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Lots of positions open in my group at NVIDIA: game programmers, 3D graphics specialists, tech artists, game artists, art directors, producers, performance analysts, automation engineers and more. Hit me up if you or someone you know is interested! blog-content.glassdoor.com/s…
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A little fatalistic, but hard to argue against it.
Here’s a good rule on code correctness. All code you haven’t tested is wrong. All code you have tested is also wrong, but appears to work by coincidence. And code you’ve proven correct does the wrong thing, correctly.
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RTX remastering of iconic games. Doesn't get much more fun than that! Contact us if you're in the Bay Area or willing to move here.
NVIDIA is building out a studio to remaster classic games for raytracing! Anyone fancy joining the fun? (search "Lightspeed") nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com…
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This is a great article on various forms of neural nets. asimovinstitute.org/neural-n…
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