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NVIDIA® touches lives of people throughout the world with innovative products, community and diversity outreach, and environmental awareness initiatives:

Our award-winning products enable significant advances in the medical, scientific, and biotech industries
NVIDIA employees are creating a serious impact in their local communities by investing in causes that further education and human services
The NVIDIA Community partners to improve our environment and create a more sustainable business

NVIDIA Employees Feeling Inspired During the Holidays

Each year NVIDIA employees partner with a local non-profit to make a difference in our local communities. This year we worked with HandsOn Bay Area to create high impact visual changes at William Overfelt High School in San Jose, CA.
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NVIDIA CUDA Recognized for Life Saving Potential

Tech News World recognizes NVIDIA's CUDA architecture, which allows the GPU to be used by scientists for groundbreaking research and results, as one of "the most magical, excellent, almost perfect products of 2008".
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Transforming Industries

University of Antwerp Speeds Medical Imaging Development with GPU and CUDA

Researchers at the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp have created a desktop supercomputer using NVIDIA GPUs, which gives them a 100X speedup when developing 3D imaging reconstructions of internal organs and skeletal systems. The result is faster time to discovery for diseases such as osteoporosis.
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Dramatically Accelerating the Search For a Cure

Stanford University's Folding@home program has become a major force in researching cures to life-threatening diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and some cancers by combining the computing horsepower of millions of individual processors to simulate protein folding. By running the Folding@home client on an NVIDIA GeForce® GPU, protein-folding simulations can be done 140 times faster than on some of today's traditional CPUs.
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Video Game Technology May Help Surgeons Operate on Beating Hearts

“To perform intricate beating-heart operations in babies with congenital heart disease or do beating-heart complex repairs in adults, surgeons need fast, highly sophisticated real-time imaging that allows them to see depth. In an NIH-funded study featured on the cover of the June Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, cardiac surgeons from Children's Hospital Boston report good results with a simple technology borrowed from the gaming industry: stereo glasses.”
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Making an Impact

NVIDIA Worldwide Employees Create High Impact with 2008 Grant Program

Launched this year, the High Impact Grant Program awards $50,000 to organizations throughout the world that prove they can have a transformative impact on the people they serve. Learn more about the four grant recipients that NVIDIA employees voted and the process for determining the grantees.
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Preserving the Planet

NVIDIA Commits to Electronics Industry Code of Conduct

At NVIDIA, Visualize Green means leveraging the creativity of our employees and business partners to drive innovation and resource efficiency in our operations and our products, with the goal of leaving a healthier planet for future generations.
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The Many Faces of NVIDIA

Diversity is a key focus at NVIDIA. We believe that the growth and development of a diverse employee culture provides a comprehensive business advantage. We are continually building programs and policie s that encourage and support all lifestyles, ideals, and backgrounds, and we are committed to investing in employment programs and practices that motivate and encourage all employees.
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