Categories Announcements

Project Chronicle Google+ Hangout

Yesterday we held a live Google+ Hangout with Autodesk's Project Chronicle Product Manager Eric Stover and myself.It was a fun time with Eric and I in the Office of the CTO brainstorm room complete with lawn chairs on fake grass, but there was one big issue. We had…

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Categories 3D Printing

Autodesk Design & Make Contest Winner

At Autodesk University last week the winning team of the Autodesk Design & Make contest was selected by the audience as Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski couldn't reach a consensus on the winning team. The Design & Make contest was Autodesk employees using our…

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Categories Misc.

Hour of Code Project

While writing your own software or apps, or even coding your own web page is not for everyone it is for some a very enjoyable hobby or career. The Hour of Code for the Computer Science Education Week is designed to expose people to coding or programming in…

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Categories 3D Printing

Science Can Be Fun!

For six decades and three generations, the Leakey family has dedicated themselves to uncovering, understanding and promoting the story of our origins. They have been systematically discovering evidence of our ancestry in East Africa. The Leakey team have collected thousands of fossils of human ancestors and other animals,…

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Categories 3D Printing

Ask the Smithsonian Laser Cowboys Anything on Reddit

How do you digitize the Smithsonian artifacts in 3D? Ask the Laser Cowboys right now on Reddit! http://s.si.edu/1hLnOD3 I am here with Smithsonian's 3D capturing experts the "Laser Cowboys" Adam Metallo and Vince Rossi, 3D Program Officers, Smithsonian Institution Digitization Program at the famed Smithsonian Castle in Washington…

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Categories Announcements

Running Autodesk Applications in My Web Browser

The Office of the CTO is trending all over the web and social media this week due to one announcement! Tuesday we made a joint announcement with Amazon, Mozilla and Otoy about Autodesk desktop applications running through the browser. In short, we announced technology that lets customers fire…

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Categories 3D Printing

Ask Autodesk’s Dr. Jordan Brandt, Anything on Reddit

Autodesk's own Dr. Jordan Brandt, Mfg. Tech. Futurist (@gordobia on Twitter) , participates today November 6th, 2013 at 2:00pm PT (5pm ET) in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AmA). Ask him about 3D printing, robotics, the Hyperloop, or anything. http://www.reddit.com/user/JordanBrandtFuturist/

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