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Archive for July, 2010
One Screen to Rule Them All, One Screen to Find Them, One Screen to Bring Them All and In the IT Bind Them
Jul. 21 | Consumer technology pundits say there is a war going on over what screen size will prevail: mobile, desktop, or room-size. For engineering, all such talk is nonsense; they all have a place. By Randall S. Newton There is much talk of convergence-as-war...
MHT Profiles “Visionary … Hands-on” Incoming PTC CEO Heppelmann
Jul. 21 | MHT’s “The Mover” column takes a look at the incoming CEO of PTC, maker of Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill. Online journal Massachusetts High Tech has posted a profile of incoming PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann. The article is at: http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/07/19/weekly13-PTCs-Heppelmann-the-CEO-in-the-wings.html Heppelmann...
International Team Completes 3D Survey of Mount Rushmore
Jul. 20 | A team of digital preservationists climbed all over Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and T. Roosevelt with Leica Geosystems 3D scanners to create a complete 3D digital model of the cultural treasure. 3D scan data blended with a photo, showing initial...
Dassault Systèmes teams with EskoArtwork to create management tools for packaging, label management
Jul. 19 | Dassault Systèmes continues to expand its fruitful PLM relationship with Proter & Gamble by announcing a partnership with EskoArtwork, the Belgium-based supplier of hardware and software products for CPG (Consumer Packaging Goods) manufacturing....
Survey: Integrated Project Delivery Simultaneously Scary but Intriguing
Jul. 16 | A new ZweigWhite survey on attitudes toward IPD show both fear and longing. The results of a new AEC survey show that many architecture and engineering leaders think integrated project delivery (IPD) is both scary and intriguing. IPD is when architects,...
Autodesk releases Plant Design Suite 2011
Jul. 15 | Autodesk has continued the evolution of its plant design product line that combines core products with newer 3D and data tracking software. Autodesk’s Plant Design Suite 2011 includes AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD P&ID 2011, AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011, and...
A Brief History of the Minority Report User Interface
Jul. 15 | Computer scientist John Underkoffler designed the computer user interface that caused such a stir when it appeared in the film Minority Report. In this video from TED 2010, Underkoffler explains past, present and future of human-computer relations in...
Apple Quietly Assembles Geospatial Brain Trust
Jul. 14 | Apple has quietly acquired the development teams of two small geospatial software companies, in an apparent bid to create a next-generation mobile GIS platform. We think augmented reality will be the big deal to come from all this. Today Montreal newspaper...
Electronic Design in Asia
Jul. 14 | Asia is intent on growing its capabilities beyond manufacture and they’re building expertise in design as well. Electronic Design represents an important domino as Asia seeks to draw new business and speed the trend of globalization. Screen shot...
