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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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Dr. Kit Miyamoto, CEO of Miyamoto Intl. and a structural engineer, gave this morning’s keynote on disaster relief and engineering at the Bentley Be Inspired event in Amsterdam. The company provides seismic risk consulting, and there is also a nonprofit arm Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief that travels the world in response to disasters. Miyamoto’s talk [...]
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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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Greg Bentley discusses the next wave of digital city modeling as the “Semantic City,” where connections and interactions between systems accomplishes better continuity and better performance. With greater interoperability, there is also the opportunity to better model and simulate the holistic performance of the city, particularly in response to events. The key to achieve this [...]
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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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A repeated theme in many sessions at the GeoInt 2011 Seminar in San Antonio this week has been the need to understand local social, tribal, religious and cultural context both in today’s conflicts and in those to come. What the people think and do has been central to current nation-building mission, and there is much [...]
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Today at the GeoInt Seminar in San Antonio the focus was placed on integration of intelligence, and the efficiencies that can be gained with greater IT alignment. With planned budget cuts in the double-digit billions of dollars in the next ten years within the intelligence community, half of those savings are expected to come from [...]
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