Former Nvidia research head is pursuing 'superhuman' AI

From the San Francisco Business Times.

The daughter of engineers, Anima Anandkumar grew up thinking of programming as “something that touches the physical world,” she said, “rather than only being in the digital realm.”

As she pursued studies in electrical engineering — first at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, then at Cornell University — and began working in artificial intelligence, she kept that mindset and carried it forward to positions at Amazon and Nvidia, where she…