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Engineering lessons from Dirty Jobs

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Randall Newton

Mike Rowe of TV’s Dirty Jobs was a surprise guest speaker at the opening day of SolidWorks World 2012. Hidden ...

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No SolidWorks V6 news this year

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Randall Newton

SolidWorks World attendees were told today to wait until 2013 for news about the long-term future of their beloved 3D ...

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FireUser.com runs a tweetstakes

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Randall Newton

Express an opinion on Twitter about your use of a recent-model AMD FirePro graphics card and be entered for a ...

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Strong fourth quarter caps solid year for Dassault Systèmes

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Randall Newton

Quarterly revenue topped a half-billion euros for the first time in company history. Results are quite good, but we notice ...

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New SolidWorks R&D VP Gian Paolo Bassi will be under the microscope at SolidWorks World 2012

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Randall Newton

In a wide-ranging interview, Bassi talks about the future of SolidWorks, the challenges of ‘knowing the pulse’ of the user ...

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SpaceClaim rapid growth continues in 2011

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Randall Newton

110% license sales growth and another round of VC funding. Ford gives its seal of approval. We compare SpaceClaim to ...

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Stratasys posts record fourth quarter revenue, up 28%

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Randall Newton

Net income in 2011 was 119% higher than in 2010. High-end 3D printers for manufacturing continue to lead the way. ...

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Alan Kay to return as COFES keynote

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Randall Newton

Kay is the inventor of object-oriented programming and considered the father of portable computing. Now he wants to re-invent programming ...

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Cyon Research opens 2012 engineering software user survey

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Randall Newton

Annual survey explores the business outlook and technology plans of firms that use CAD, CAE, PDM, PLM, and BIM software. ...

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New benchmark brings testing standards to OpenCL

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Randall Newton

Rightware says Basemark CL will improve all applications using GPUs for general purpose computation. Last year the Khronos Group introduced ...