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There were many different perspectives on the role of models coupled with interactive approaches at the recent GeoDesign Summit. The context of technology-assisted collaboration was present from many different vendors and practitioners. The role of technology to aid a collaborative decision making process has a relatively short history of field-tested results, with new technology and [...]
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Autodesk is set to unveil new conceptual energy analysis capabilities for subscription customers this week. The tools incorporate some of the building energy analysis tools previously available through Green Building Studio, directly within the Revit Architecture and Revit MEP 2011 workflow. The new functionality responds to the growing global interest in green building, despite the [...]
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The folks behind the Code for America contest that promoted the development of applications that take city data and turn it into useful citizen-centric software have taken a next step by creating Civic Commons to share the technology for the public good. The concept is to morph city-centric development into a means to share government [...]
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ISIS — a consortium of more than 800 zoos, aquariums, and conservation organizations — has just announced that they are teaming up to create one central Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS). The central shared network for those working on global wildlife conservation is unprecedented in its scale and scope, aiming to catalog and share information [...]
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I was reading this week’s Newsweek, and enjoyed the one-page interview with the CEO of Cisco Systems on the future of leadership. When asked about the value of different perspectives, he answered: “There’s a fundamental change that may be really important to the future of business in this country and the world. At Cisco, we’re [...]
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NASA unveiled the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) this week at the NASA Exploration Center at Moffett Field, Calif. NEX combines supercomputing capacity with global satellite observations and sophisticated models of the Earth system in an online and collaborative environment. NEX utilizes NASA’s largest and most powerful supercomputer Pleiades with 56,832 processors and a 1.4 petabyte [...]
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Bentley is rolling out a new format called i-model that they’re touting as a container for open information exchange. The format is essentially a DGN but with new concepts to support the workflows of integrated project delivery where multiple disciplines need access to shared information beyond simply the exchange of an individual model or file. [...]
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This week there’s a conference in Barcelona that addresses the application of grid computing to earth and environmental sciences. The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) conference explores the creation of a grid computing infrastructure on a worldwide scale for the sharing of computer resources for such applications as: weather simulation, earthquake research, climate change, biodiversity [...]
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The Washington State Transformation Framework (WA-Trans) provides a model for aggregating different statewide data sets that might provide a good blueprint for nationwide efforts. I recently interviewed Tami Griffin, the WA-Trans project manager, about the approach that she’s taking to pull together the best up-to-date data on roads, railways, ferries, aviation, ports, and non-motorized transportation [...]
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