November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders’ Conference, UC Berkeley—Carl Bass from Autodesk presented a view of engineering innovation by design. After a short video, he said that this is the best time to be an engineer. The potential for innovation now meets the access to markets, tools and money. There are three…
November 2012 – At the 2012 Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference held at UC Berkeley, the theme was “Engineering Innovation by Design”. Held in conjunction with the 5th annual Global Entrepreneurs Week, the half day event discussed a number of drivers of change in innovation in engineering. The event opened with an introduction to…
April 2012, One of the most talked about announcements at the NAB 2012 show was the release of the Autodesk Smoke product on the Mac platform for $3495 for a perpetual license with an optional $525/yr for maintenance with updates, in addition to the traditional Unix/Linux version that is still available. The product is being…
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Alfonso Cuaron, award winning director, described the influence of technology on creativity in cinema at an Autodesk event. Movies have evolved from silent black-and-white, to movies with sound, to color and through many other changes. Now we have color, 3-D, surround-sound movies that can hide the underlying technologies. Today, films…