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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26
Going offline: 18,000 words thesis to hand in tomorrow, so I better focus! # Autodesk Brings Historic Designs to Life in New Discovery Channel Series “Doing DaVinci” – http://tinyurl.com/cl8pnz # 2,000 words to go: “eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight” # Just posted: “Autodesk’s Support to the User Experience Design Community in China” (http://tinyurl.com/ddbchh) [...]
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Hans Rosling’s “New insights on poverty and life around the world” talk at TED
Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing [...]
Posted in design, economics, software, trends Also tagged Africa, Data Visualization, Demos, Doctors without Borders, Fidel Castro, free software, google, Graphic Visualization, Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institut, Karolinska Institute, physician, poverty, sportscaster, Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden, TED conference, United Nations, visualization software, Visualizations Leave a comment
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12
[Technology] Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million: Sharon LaFraniere reports in th.. http://tinyurl.com/crhau5 # [China] ‘Positive signs’ for China economy: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says that his country’s economy is.. http://tinyurl.com/cus4ha # Apparently @DanielLannon (from “The Frail”) is following me: either this is a hoax, or I’m so not worthy! # [Technology] 7 [...]
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Hans Rosling’s “Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen” talk at TED
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" [...]
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Information Visualization: Gapminder.org
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. The initial activity was to continue development of the Trendalyzer software. This software unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics...
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software, trends Also tagged Africa, California, Computational Algorithms, google, Hans Rosling, Information Visualization, Statistics, sustainable, Sweden, United Nations, Visual Language, Visualizations 1 Comment
Oscar Winner for Best Visual Effects “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Shaped with Autodesk Technology
For the 14th consecutive year, every film nominated for the Best Visual Effects Academy Award was shaped with Autodesk, Inc. digital filmmaking tools. Autodesk congratulates Matte World Digital for its Oscar-winning visual effects work on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. 'This year's Academy Award nominees continued to push digital imagery to new heights -- from intricate and complex computer-generated characters to pyrotechnical marvels to invisible effects so realistic they deceive the eye,' said Marc Petit, senior vice president, Autodesk Media & Entertainment [...]
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Internet in China: the world’s largest internet market
By July 2008, China had become the world's largest internet market with 253 million internet users including 40 million Internet game players, journalists learned from the 2008 China-ASEAN Cultural Industry Forum, which closed in Nanning city on October 29.
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Autodesk University China 2008: Second Day
The second day of Autodesk University in China featured several breakout sessions targeted at specific industries. The event also provided a platform for Autodesk to champion for few initiatives toward more efficient, innovative, and sustainable design, like Digital Prototyping, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and Digital Cities. For the Digital Cities initiative, AU China brought Doug Eberhard -- Sr. Director and Industry Evangelist for the Geospatial Business Unit -- to share Autodesk's vision to create a collaborative environment around intelligent high-fidelity 3D digital models of existing and proposed infrastructure [...]
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Autodesk to buy Softimage|XSI
Autodesk has signed a definitive agreement with Avid to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for around US$35 million. This will mean that Autodesk will own three of the main 3D suites: 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage|XSI. Autodesk plans to acquire and continue developing the core Softimage|XSI suite, the Softimage|Face Robot facial animation software, the Softimage|Cat character animation plug-in for 3ds Max and the Softimage|Crosswalk 'interoperability solution' – which will be integrated with Autodesk's own sharing technology...
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Autodesk Announces New Design Software Solutions for Education Market