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Business Wire, August 7, 2007

SAN DIEGO -- Addison-Wesley Professional, a technical imprint of Pearson Education, announced today at the SIGGRAPH 2007 Conference the release of GPU Gems 3, the third volume of the best-selling GPU Gems series. The book focuses on the latest Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) programming techniques, and will be showcased in the Addison-Wesley booth (#736).

NEWS FACTS

* GPU Gems 3 provides detailed coverage of the latest developments in graphics programming -- including skin rendering, realistic facial motion, and complex terrain generation -- from some of the world's leading experts, including researchers and engineers at Adobe Systems, Apple, Microsoft Research, Electronic Arts, SEGA, Cornell University, UC Davis, and NVIDIA.

* The book also continues to cover GPU computing in non-graphics applications, including network processing and oil exploration.

* Hubert Nguyen from NVIDIA served as the lead editor on the book's articles and worked alongside other NVIDIA engineers to provide readers the best possible GPU content.

* "Beyond superb contributions of content, we take great pride in the book's production quality," stated Peter Gordon, Publishing Partner at Addison-Wesley Professional. "As shown with the first two volumes, what better way to illustrate high-end graphics techniques and results than to print every page in full color."

* The book is available at major book sellers nationwide, for more information visit the Addison-Wesley Professional web site www.awprofessional.com or the official GPU Gems 3 home page http://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems3.> About Pearson

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