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Dennis Shelden, founder and chief technology officer of Gehry Technologies spoke during one of the Innovation Forums at Autodesk University today in Las Vegas. In addition to displaying sophisticated high-rise housing that is enabled by the BIM process, he highlighted the convergence of CAD and GIS in the planning process at the World Trade Center [...]
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Mark Kauffman, technical lead of project visualization at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), demonstrated the use of Infrastructure Modeler this morning at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. With their large-scale infrastructure projects, PB has been dealing with geospatial data and the need to visualize their designs in context for a long time, and this new tool fit [...]
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Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk’s vice president of Suites, Web Services and Subscription, spoke this morning about the cloud at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. The aim at Autodesk is to leverage cloud computing to open up new capabilities for their users. – collaboration with large data sets has been a focus for some time, with Buzzsaw [...]
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Jeff Kowalski, CTO of Autodesk kicked off today’s Autodesk University in Las Vegas with a retrospective look to the “good old days” where things were simpler, the rotary phone was technology, and the market was not yet the supermarket. Our world is full of extreme complexity now, and we’re not going back. Complexity theorists talk [...]
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Brian Mathews, vice president, Autodesk Labs addressed what’s next at Autodesk University in Las Vegas today. The confluence of technology disruptions that are affecting design was the focus of the talk. Just as rip, mix and burn dramatically altered the music industry, the same is happening in the design community with capture, design and create. [...]
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Autodesk University kicked off today in Las Vegas, with a media day briefing that spoke frankly about technology disruptions facing their customers. Customers are being pushed to do more with less in an uncertain economy, with a greater focus on sustainability. Even in the face of these challenges, this year’s event has drawn more than [...]
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Bentley Systems speaks internally of the ‘integration tax’ that they pay in developing their software with an eye toward cross-platform interoperability and their continued commitment to backward compatibility of their software. Bentley is unique in this regard as most software companies of their tenure have had complete code base transitions that have broken the ability [...]
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At today’s BeInspired 2011 presentation day, Bentley Systems displayed the ability to extend online mapping functionality beyond the 2D map or imagery view. The offering provides a 3D immersive view of models from wherever they originate, such as Oracle Spatial 3D, cad files, and point clouds. Interactive navigation capabilities within the context of the map [...]
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Bentley Systems announces today the acquisition of Pointools, a hardware-neutral point cloud handling software. The point cloud creation hardware is reducing in cost, and becoming more integral to infrastructure projects. To date, the size of point clouds has made them problematic because they overwhelm storage and query capabilities. Pointools Vortex engine has been integrated into [...]
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Dr. Greg Smith, deputy director of Innovision and chief scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), gave the keynote at this morning’s Pre-Symposium Science and Technology Forum as a pre-cursor to the GeoInt Symposium in San Antonio. He began by highlighting the 15th anniversary of NGA that was celebrated last month with the opening of [...]
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