NVIDIA CUDA Excellence Centres: NVIDIA Recognizes Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University as CUDA Centers of Excellence for their commitment to furthering GPU Computing research and their teaching of parallel programming courses based on the CUDA architecture. The inauguration took place Oct. 27, 2009, at the Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences , with talks by Jen-Hsun Huang , co-founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA , Bill Dally , chief scientist of NVIDIA. See press releases at 1 and 2 . October 2009