Nvidia's Chief Scientist and Vice President of Architecture, Dr. David Kirk, was honoured by the ACM SIGGRAPH organisation with a prestigious Computer Graphics Achievement Award for outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Since 1983, ACM SIGGRAPH has bestowed this award to just one exemplary individual per year. Dr. Kirk joins an esteemed list of past award winners that includes SGI founders Jim Clark and Kurt Akeley; Stanford University Professor Marc Levoy; Pixar Animation Studios Senior Scientist Anthony D. DeRose and Adobe Systems Co-founder and Chairman Dr. John E. Warnock. More information and press release @ Nvidia News Site