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Design Software

Listen to Peter Rieks’ “Autodesk, SQL Server 2008, and Spatial Data” talk at MSND’s Channel 9

MSDN’s Channel talked to Peter Rieks, who is the product manager for Autodesk’s Geospatial products, about how they are delivering that vision, and the impact of SQL Server 2008 in this market, allowing their customers to visualize, simulate, and analyze designs […]

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Design

Watch Stefan Sagmeister’s “Yes, design can make you happy!” talk at TED

Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy — and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design […]

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Design Information Technology Software

Autodesk Technology Helped Developers Create 2008’s Hottest Holiday Games

Autodesk technology played a part in the creation of many top holiday games that hit shelves in 2008, including Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, Rock Band 2, and more […]

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Design Readings

Listen to Andrew Hinton’s “You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space and The Context Problem” talk at IA Summit 2009

Lead Information Architect in Vanguard’s User Experience Group, Andrew Hinton provides engaging examples (including Mr. Spock, a speeding trolley, and a Dada urinal), illustrating how language powerfully affects context, and vice-versa. Andrew connects this understanding with real-life Information Architecture design issues such as Twitter’s syntax or Facebook’s Beacon and challenges us to think more carefully about how we shape context in the digital dimension […]

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China Economics Innovation

China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: More cash, less gas emissions?

Can the Chinese eventually enjoy a standard of living comparable to developed nations while discharging less greenhouse gases?

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Economics Information Technology Innovation Software

Autodesk featured on NPR’s “Virtual Shovel-Ready Projects Get Stimulus Money” Morning Edition

Shovel-ready projects in the U.S. and around the world are relying on Autodesk infrastructure software […]

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Consumer Behavior Software Trend Watching

Watch Seth Godin’s “Why Tribes, not money or factories, will Change the World” talk at TED

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so […]

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Design Economics Innovation Software

Autodesk and the Clinton Climate Initiative Join Forces to Support the Building of Sustainable Cities

As a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, the most important contribution Autodesk can make to address global sustainability challenges is to provide customers with innovative technologies. A new tool being developed will help cities manage their greenhouse gas emissions levels […]

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Innovation Readings

Listen to Dorelle Rabinowitz’s “Motivating Teams: Inspiring People To Do Great Work” talk at IA Summit 2009

How does a manager deal with an inherited team, rather than a team she hand-picked? Sometimes a manager has to motivate someone who applied for that manager’s job – and is extremely resentful. What about the differences between innies and outies? Dorelle Rabinowitz, lead of the Design Systems Group at eBay, shares stories from both managers and individual contributors about how they either inspired their teams to do great things or how things fell apart […]

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Information Technology Innovation

Watch Mae Jemison’s “A bold vision for teaching arts and sciences: together” talk at TED

Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer … Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one — to create bold thinker […]