Nicholas Wilt

Nicholas Wilt has been programming professionally for more than twenty-five years in a variety of areas, including industrial machine vision, graphics, and low-level multimedia software. While at Microsoft, he served as the development lead for Direct3D 5.0 and 6.0, built the prototype for the Desktop Window Manager, and did early GPU computing work. At NVIDIA, he worked on CUDA from its inception, designing and often implementing most of CUDA’s low-level abstractions. Now at Amazon, Mr. Wilt is working on cloud computing technologies relating to GPUs.