Categories Misc.

Hurley’s Amazing Moon Crater

At first I thought I had received some more odd spam email or from Marvin the Martian to finally blow up Earth’s moon, but it wasn't. The ominous email started with the subject line of “LROC :: Moon target acquired notice” and filled with cryptic text: ”LRO/LROC ::…

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Categories Misc.

Happy Holidays from Autodesk

All of us at Autodesk wish you and your family and loved ones a very happy and safe holiday and New Year. Many of us at Autodesk are taking our annual week of rest from December 24th until January 4th to spend with our families and friends and…

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Categories Autodesk University

Storming Autodesk University 2015 with Storm Troopers

What happens in Vegas…https://slate.adobe.com/cp/TMpxB  Thanks to my Autodesk colleague Jonathan Knowles and for the fun Storm Trooper action at AU 2015 this year. I had the pleasure of playing Storm Trooper Wrangler and photographer, and loved the reactions from attendees. One Storm Trooper even Facetimed with an AU…

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Categories AutoCAD

AutoCAD Plant 3D and P&ID 2017 Beta Available for Download

The AutoCAD Plant Team aka “PlantZilla” has announced and released the beta of the next version of the Plant 3D and P&ID products and inviting people to participate and provide feedback and testing to assure the best possible released product in the future. The beta is available under…

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Categories Design

BunnyBot 2015

I am volunteering as a design and Autodesk Inventor  mentor with local Portland Oregon high school FIRST Robotics (FRC) Team 1540 of Catlin Gabel. This weekend Our team hosted the 8th annual BunnyBot event where local teams are invited to compete with robots while preparing for the big…

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Categories Autodesk University

Autodesk University 2015 Leadership Forums

In the Autodesk Office of the CTO (OCTO) I have the absolute pleasure of working with amazingly smart, creative, talented, fun people. A few years ago our team had an intern Heather Kerrick join from Stanford University. Heather worked with us long enough for her to graduate and…

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Categories Misc.

SF Run to High Five Yoda

I am in the San Francisco Office this week and got up early for a run.. I love running in SF as there are so many things to see, routes to run, and comfortable chilled air. This morning I started from near the Autodesk One Market office and…

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Categories Uncategorized

Autodesk Pier 9 – Madeline Gannon Tames a Robot

This is a pretty cool video showing a student doing some cool research at the Autodesk Pier 9 during her residency in my team’s Robotics Lab. https://vimeo.com/148982525 “During her residency at Pier 9, Madeline Gannon developed a project called Quipt – a gesture-based control software that gives industrial…

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Categories Autodesk University

Autodesk University 2015 Classes Posted

Heads up for those registered at the Autodesk University website as the sessions that were recorded just a mere two weeks ago have now been posted. Now you can watch and learn from the classes you weren’t able to attend. Grab a coffee and go learn some cool…

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