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'''Ren Wu''',<br/>
a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American Chinese American] computer scientist in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data big data], [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] industry and former [[Chinese Chess|Xiangqi]] and chess programmer.
He holds a Ph.D. from [[Queen Mary, University of London]], and was affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard Hewlett Packard] ''Intelligent Information Management Lab'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto Palo Alto, California], focusing on enabling near real-time business intelligence with robust, scalable data management, data-intensive analytics and fusion of structured and unstructured information, [[GPU|GPU computing]], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_parallel massively parallel ] [[Algorithms|algorithms]].
More recently, Ren Wu is founder and CEO at ''NovuMind'', producing the ''NovuTensor'' chip, a special-purpose processor designed to perform [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor tensor] computation for [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural networks]] <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/technology/ NovuMind - Technology]</ref> <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/company/ NovuMind - Company]</ref> <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/company/leadership/ NovuMind - Leadership]</ref>.
=Programs=
Ren Wu's [[Chinese Chess|Chinese]] (Xiangqi) and Western chess programs were [[Surprise (Xiangqi)|Surprise]], two times Chinese chess Chess Gold Medal winner at the [[3rd Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|3rd]] and [[4th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|4th Computer Olympiad]], and the chess program [[Initiative]] which did not compete in [[ICCA]] tournaments <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/VnaUuGmkuQQ/qCmmDeYAIPkJ WMCCC Jakarta] by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], August 8, 1996</ref> <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/ZY2Hq4e5RyE/9nseFZx1xQgJ Re: Fritz5 ECM test suite results] by [[Ren Wu]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], September 6, 1997</ref>.
According to [[Chris Whittington]] the chess software for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 Psion 3a] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant PDA] was written by Ren Wu <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.psion/7XLMSdq4kfY/NGqToXHc30EJ Re: Chess software for psion] post 5 by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], April 18, 1996</ref>.
==2010 ...==
* [[Ren Wu]], [https://cedar.buffalo.edu/~binzhang/ Bin Zhang], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hsu:Meichun Meichun Hsu], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chen:Qiming Qiming Chen] ('''2010'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14246-8_56 GPU-Accelerated Predicate Evaluation on Column Store]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/waim/waim2010.html WAIM 2010], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science LNCS] 6184, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/d/Dang:Qingqing Qingqing Dang], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/y/Yan:Shengen Shengen Yan], [[Ren Wu]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7097862 A fast integral image generation algorithm on GPUs]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icpads/icpads2014.html ICPADS 2014]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chen:Qiming Qiming Chen], [[Ren Wu]] ('''2017'''). ''CNN Is All You Need''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09662 arXiv:1712.09662]
