Both of NVIDIA's chief scientists were from Caltech.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2024-06-14. 'Both chief scientists' means the people who have held the title of NVIDIA Chief Scientist (expected: David Kirk and Bill Dally). 'From Caltech' means they earned a degree there or were Caltech faculty or alumni. True: official biographies show that every person who has held the title Chief Scientist at NVIDIA (two in total) has a Caltech degree or affiliation. Mostly true: both have a Caltech connection, but a minor detail is off (for example one was a Caltech faculty member rather than a graduate). Mostly false: only one of them has a Caltech connection, or NVIDIA has had more than two chief scientists and not all were from Caltech. False: neither has a Caltech connection.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 David B. Kirk NVIDIA Own record
“He holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Caltech.”
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E2 Nvidia names Stanford scientist its research chief - CNET CNET · 28 January 2009
“holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.”
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E3 Alumnus Profile: Bill Dally (PhD '86) Caltech ENGenuity (California Institute of Technology) · 4 October 2022
“After earning his PhD at Caltech, Dally joined the faculty of MIT, where he and his team built experimental parallel computer systems and built the foundation for the theory of interconnection networks.”
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E4 Jensen Huang gives Caltech commencement speech | Taiwan News | Jun. 16, 2024 17:16 Taiwan News · 16 June 2024
“Huang added that Nvidia’s two chief scientists are both from Caltech and reminded graduates that the company continues to recruit new engineers.”
Reasoning
The evidence shows that David Kirk and Bill Dally hold Caltech degrees [E1][E3]. None of the quoted evidence establishes who has held the title of NVIDIA Chief Scientist, or that there have been only two, and [E4] only repeats Huang's statement.
Cite this claim
Jensen Huang, “Both of NVIDIA's chief scientists were from Caltech.” (said 14 June 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_447a4dd7191e, method 0.1.0+03d23c0e, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_447a4dd7191e
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
Reply to this claim
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“NVIDIA Open Shell is open source.”
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