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Watch Randy Pausch’s “Really achieving your childhood dreams” talk at TED
In 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was dying of pancreatic cancer, delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. This moving talk will teach you how to really achieve your childhood dreams. Unmissable [...]
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Autodesk Software Core to Realization of James Cameron’s Creative Vision for “Avatar”
From start to finish, software from Autodesk, Inc. , played a pivotal role in helping James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment pioneer new methods of virtual moviemaking, for Cameron's history-making motion picture "Avatar" [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation Also tagged animation, Autodesk, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Avatar, Carl Bass, digital technology, entertainment, environment, Game, James Cameron, Storytelling, technology, visual effects 1 Comment
Watch Lalitesh Katragadda’s “Making maps to fight disaster, build economies” talk at TED
As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster -- and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google's Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world [...]
Autodesk 3ds Max wins Game Developer Award for “Best Art Tool” of 2009
Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of important tools, from game engines to books, and selects the top five products in each category. Front Line Awards finalists represent the most innovative, user-friendly, and useful products from behind the scenes of the world’s best video games. For this year, Autodesk 3ds Max won Game Developer Award for Best Art Tool [...]
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Autodesk creates game to raise Green Building awareness
Play the "RetroFits" game and help raise awareness about the benefits of better, greener buildings [...]
Autodesk open-sources carbon accounting method
Autodesk is making a revised method for tracking greenhouse gas emissions available for free to other companies [...]
Posted in design, innovation, software, trends Also tagged AutoCAD, Autodesk, Carbon finance, Climate change, design software, Emma Stewart, environment, Environmental economics, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Gross Domestic Product, Software development process, sustainability, sustainable, United Nations, United States Leave a comment
Autodesk Constructware 2010 Offers New Features to Improve Construction Project Management
Autodesk announced the release of Autodesk Constructware 2010 project management software. As a premier solution for the construction industry, Autodesk Constructware 2010, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, providing an on-demand environment for construction project management and collaboration [...]
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Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe at TED
Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new [...]
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Education in China: Autodesk to support China’s engineering education with software, training
Autodesk, a world leader in 2D and 3D design software, is to donate its latest software worth 50 million U.S. dollars to 50 Chinese universities and secondary vocational schools, said a memorandum signed here recently [...]
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps at TED