NVIDIA and Aurora Collaborate to Build Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicle Compute Platform

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- *CES *--* *NVIDIA and Aurora today announced that they are working together to create a new Level 4 and Level 5 self-driving hardware platform that will use the NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier™ processor.

At the opening press conference of CES 2018, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang disclosed that NVIDIA’s automotive team is working with Aurora to bring up a new modular and scalable DRIVE Xavier platform that will bring autonomous vehicles to market.

“NVIDIA created DRIVE Xavier for companies like Aurora,” said Huang. “Our two world-class engineering teams share a common understanding of the power of AI and the enormous processing required to enable advanced self-driving cars and mobility-as-a-service solutions.”

“Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving quickly and safely around the world. To do that, we are developing a platform that scales across a broad range of makes and models from our automotive partners,” said Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora. “NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier is a key element of Aurora’s computer, delivering the performance needed to power our self-driving system.”

Aurora, a leading self-driving system company, was founded in 2017 by three pioneers of the self-driving car industry. With its automotive partners, Aurora expects to deploy Level 4 and Level 5 cars on the world’s roads in the coming years.

* About Aurora*
Based in Silicon Valley, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Aurora designs and builds self-driving technology. Aurora works with leading automakers to integrate, pilot and deploy advanced self-driving platforms around the world. Founded by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, Aurora is working to solve today’s most complex AI, automation and engineering challenges to improve transportation and positively impact our cities. More information at www.aurora.tech.

*About NVIDIA
*NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. More information at http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact and goals of NVIDIA and Aurora’s collaboration; the power of AI and the processing required to enable advanced self-driving cars and mobility-as-a service solutions; and the benefits, abilities and performance of NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended October 29, 2017. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

© 2018 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, NVIDIA DRIVE and NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.

*For further information, contact:*
Aurora
press@aurora.tech

Fazel Adabi
PR Manager for Automotive
NVIDIA Corporation
(818) 987-7887
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Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has unveiled major new partnerships as it advances new products to enable self-driving vehicles. Nvidia, at the CES consumer electronics show, has announced separate deals with Uber and Aurora. Uber selected Nvidia’s artificial intelligence systems as it advances its self-driving efforts, which have incorporated real world trials in Pittsburgh and Phoenix, with some 2mln autonomous miles across 50,000 passenger trips. “Developing safe, reliable autonomous vehicles requires sophisticated AI software and a high-performance GPU computing engine in the vehicle,” said Eric Meyhofer, head of Uber Advanced Technologies Group. “NVIDIA is a key technology provider to Uber as we bring scalable self-driving cars and trucks to market.” Jensen Huang, Nvidia chief executive, highlighted that the Uber collaboration will benefit from “AI algorithms that enable vehicles to perceive the world, predict what will happen next and quickly choose the best course of action.” Aurora, a Silicon Valley start-up, is developing systems for car manufactures such as Volkswagen and Hyundai, and it will be using Nvidia’s ‘Drive Xavier’ AI platform. “NVIDIA created DRIVE Xavier for companies like Aurora,” Huang said. He added: “Our two world-class engineering teams share a common understanding of the power of AI and the enormous processing required to enable advanced self-driving cars and mobility-as-a-service solutions.” Nvidia shares rose nearly 3% in Monday’s pre-market dealing, changing hands at US$221.58. Reported by Proactive Investors 3 hours ago.

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TORONTO, Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- *Exco Technologies Limited* (TSX:XTC) today announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2017 after the close of business on Wednesday January 31, 2018.The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Exco Technologies Limited will also take place on January 31, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. (Toronto time) at Magna Golf Club, at 14780 Leslie Street, Aurora, Ontario. Management will discuss year-end and first quarter results and will also take questions from the public at that time.

To access the live audio webcast, please log on to www.excocorp.com, or https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/pc84jorq a few minutes before the event. The conference call can be accessed by dialling toll free at (866) 572-8261 or internationally at (703) 736-7448. The conference ID is 7494289. Questions can be submitted via the Q&A box on the webcast console or via the conference call.

For those unable to participate on January 31, 2018, an archived version will be available on the Exco website.

*Source:* Exco Technologies Limited (TSX-XTC)
*Contact:* Darren Kirk, Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer
*Telephone: * (905) 477-3065 Ext. 7233
*Website:* http://www.excocorp.com Reported by GlobeNewswire 2 hours ago.

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The VW Moia ride-sharing vehicle

A new company set up by the former head of the Google car project has become a key player in autonomous technology

You probably haven’t heard of Aurora Innovation. And there’s no real reason you should have.

But you’ll definitely have heard of two firms who, at this year’s CES, have announced partnerships with the tiny company to use its autonomous technology: Volkswagen and Hyundai.

*Click here to read more about C**ES 2018*

That two major car groups have reached a deal with a relatively unproven company is unprecedented in an industry known for being conservative when you consider Aurora was established just over a year ago with just five staff.

Three of them initially worked out of co-founder Chris Urmson’s home in Palo Alto, California, with two operating from an old restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

They key, of course, involves the experience of those three co-founders: Urmson is the former boss of Google’s autonomous driving division, Sterling Anderson previously worked for Tesla, and Drew Bagnell was Uber’s autonomous vehicle leader.

So while Aurora was only founded last year, it’s run by some of the pioneers of self-driving vehicles. Canadian Urmson has been working on autonomous technology since his time as a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. His work on a NASA robot led to the opportunity to develop an autonomous car for the DARPA Challenge event in 2003. In 2007, CMU’s self-driving Chevrolet Tahoe won the DARPA Urban Challenge.

He them spent just over seven years working on the technology for Google, before deciding he needed a new challenge. Bt his time at CMU and Google helped turn Urmson, now 41, into a key figurehead in the self-driving world.

“When I left Google, it made the national news,” he says, adding: “That was bizarre.”

And, after a few months out, he helped establish Aurora.

During his time with Google, Urmson met Jurgen ‘JJ’ Jungwirth, VW’s chief digital office at CES. Jungwirth said: “I took a ride in Google’s self-driving Toyota Prius.

I’ve seen the progress Chris made with Google’s team and systems. When it was clear his decision was to establish Aurora Innovation and make the best self-driving system in the world and work in a friendly way with OEMs we talked again.”

VW and Aurora have been working together for around a year, and in the last six months have begun integrating Aurora’s self-driving system – including sensors, hardware and software – into VW Group platforms.Urmson describes Aurora’s opportunity to work with VW as “profound.”

“Building an affordable ecosystem that enables VW to be as successful as they have been is a difficult business, and it takes a set of processes and a mindset. It’s a very different thing to what you see in Silicon Valley, when the most complex product is a smartphone that takes six to nine months to develop.”

It’s that ability of tech firms to be more agile and responsive that has attracted Volkswagen and Hyundai to Aurora. Fellow Aurora founder Sterling Anderson added: “We felt when we started Aurora that if we pulled together an experienced team that understands every facet of autonomous vehicles, we could combine it was the strengths a company such as Volkswagen has in terms of development and production and move more quickly than we could separately.”

Urmson says that the key to Aurora’s rapid rise is ensuring everyone is passionate about the goal to make self-driving cars, rather than money – although he noted he’s “not opposed” to the latter. With two major car firms on board, Aurora is expanding rapidly – there’s a length list of vacancies on its website. But Urmson says expansion plans will never include the firm developing its own car. “Making one car is easy,” he said. “Making a million is an incredibly complex thing.”

But make no mistake: while you might not see Aurora’s name on the front of a car any time soon, the firm could become a key player in the shape of motoring in the future.

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Meliora will offer Vida’s clinically-validated digital therapeutics and personalized health coaching

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) January 10, 2018

Vida Health, a digital therapeutic platform that helps employees and members overcome chronic physical and behavioral health problems, today announced a major partnership with Meliora Technology. Vida’s digital therapeutics, coupled with human coaching and therapy, will be offered to new and existing enterprise customers of Meliora starting in January 2018.

The partnership with Meliora considerably expands Vida’s reach in the $7 billion corporate wellness market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.8% as employers expand their wellness programs and benefits.

“We believe that a healthy workplace starts with a rock-solid wellness program. That’s why we’re excited to partner with Meliora, a company that delivers custom, data-driven, and intuitive online corporate wellness platforms,” said Stephanie Tilenius, Chief Executive Officer of Vida Health. “This partnership will allow us to expand our reach in the corporate wellness market while offering Meliora’s customers a proven digital therapeutics platform that will help individuals prevent, manage, and overcome chronic disease. Together, we’re confident that we can lower healthcare costs, improve employee engagement, and help individuals reach new levels of health.”

Vida combines digital therapeutics with health coaching and therapy to uniquely address comorbidities, helping individuals prevent, improve, and overcome multiple physical and behavioral health conditions simultaneously. The company offers clinically-validated digital therapeutic programs for prediabetes, diabetes, stress, resilience, anxiety, depression, hypertension, smoking cessation, and weight loss.

“Vida’s behavioral science approach combined with innovative digital therapeutics and best-in-class coaching provides transformative value to our new and existing users. We are specifically impressed with Vida’s clinical outcomes as well as the company’s ability to drive down medical expenditures in large populations,” said Bill Johnston, Managing Partner of Meliora Technology. “We firmly believe Vida will make an exceptional addition in the advancement of our platform structure.”

Vida is currently deployed by leading employers and healthcare companies. Enterprise customers include eBay, Steelcase, FICO, West Marine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Aurora Health Care, and Partners Healthcare.

To learn more, please visit http://www.vida.com.

About Vida Health

Vida is your health transformation partner. We help employees and members overcome chronic physical and behavioral health problems, once and for all.

We offer evidence-based digital therapeutics for multiple chronic conditions, including anxiety, depression, diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. We combine rich program content with expert human coaching and therapy, and deliver our service through an easy-to-use mobile app.

Behavior science and machine learning are our underpinnings. Our digital therapeutics are proven to drive positive behavior change and produce lasting results. We leverage data science to personalize the experience to each individual, increasing program engagement and effectiveness.

Our array of evidence-based digital therapeutics enables us to help individuals struggling with comorbidities, treating them across multiple chronic physical and behavioral health conditions.

We are trusted by Fortune 1000 companies, major national payers, and large providers to help employees and members overcome their most persistent health challenges.

Vida can help anyone transform their health. Visit us online at http://www.vida.com.

About Meliora

Meliora Technology is the industry's premier provider of technology solutions for workplace health management programs. We develop and implement customized health management software available 100% online. Meliora’s tools and services simplify the processes of program administration, EDI data exchange, error resolution, and more. Since our inception in 2009, Meliora's goal has been to use technology and information to simplify the administration of wellness, reduce healthcare costs, and empower engagement.

Meliora provides clients and partners with advanced technology, data analytics, and live participant experiences. As technology changes, we strive to enhance platform resources so employers can focus on improving program specifics to build employee self-services and promote a healthier culture.

We measure our success by our clients' and partners' outcomes and satisfaction. Meliora is based in Fort Worth, Texas operating on a national level.

Visit our website at http://www.melioratechnology.com.

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Aurora, IL, Jan. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Nasdaq: CCMP), the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and second largest CMP pads supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced today that it is scheduled to present at the 20^th Annual Needham Growth Conference in New York at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, January 17, 2018. Forward looking and other material information may be discussed during the presentation. A live webcast and replay of the presentation will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at ir.cabotcmp.com. For more information, or to arrange a meeting with management, please contact your Needham representative, or Trisha Tuntland of Cabot Microelectronics at investor_relations@cabotcmp.com.

*ABOUT CABOT MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION*
Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, is the world's leading supplier of CMP polishing slurries and second largest CMP pads supplier to the semiconductor industry. The company’s products play a critical role in the production of advanced semiconductor devices, helping to enable the manufacture of smaller, faster and more complex devices by its customers. The company's mission is to create value by delivering high-performing and innovative solutions that solve its customers’ challenges. The company has approximately 1,150 employees on a global basis. For more information about Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, visit www.cabotcmp.com or contact Trisha Tuntland, Director of Investor Relations at 630-499-2600.

CONTACT: Trisha Tuntland
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DETROIT (AP) — After leaving a leadership post at Google's autonomous car unit, Chris Urmson and two other self-driving vehicle pioneers are back in the race with a new company that will rival their former employers. Aurora Innovation on Thursday announced that it had signed partnerships with Hyundai and Volkswagen to help the automakers develop autonomous vehicles, a major step in the tightening competition. Urmson, who led autonomous vehicle development efforts at Alphabet Inc.'s Google for more than seven years, started Aurora last year with former Tesla executive Sterling Anderson, and ex-Uber autonomous vehicle leader Drew Bagnell. Reported by SeattlePI.com 6 days ago.

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