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Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Autodesk Acquires Numenus’ Ray Tracing Technology For Undisclosed Sum

Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK) announced that it has acquired certain technology related assets from Numenus GmbH, a software provider of high-end visualization technology used to efficiently render and review 3D datasets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  The transaction is expected to have no impact on Autodesk’s guidance issued on August 18, 2011. Numenus’ founders are

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Altair Engineering Announces HyperWorks 11.0 Workshop Series

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, has announced its HyperWorks 11.0 Americas Rollout Series, a series of one-day workshops aimed at educating customers and partners on the features and updates in HyperWorks 11.0, the latest version of Altair’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

EON Reality Announces the EON Mobile Ifloat

EON Reality, the world’s leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced the release of the EON Mobile Ifloat, a PC based 2- channel immersive environment in which participants are completely immersed in virtual imagery and sound. Objects float in front of the participant and can be interacted with and manipulated by users in real-time.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

USGS Preparation and Data Collection Activity for Hurricane Irene

USGS scientists, engineers, and technicians are and will be working along the eastern U.S. coast in response to Hurricane Irene. USGS crews have been deploying stage sensors and rapid deployment real-time streamgages and flying oblique aerial photography of the coastline in anticipation of Hurricane Irene’s arrival. Read More

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Surrey Heath Turns to Google Earth

Decision-makers in Surrey Heath are looking to technology to lighten their work burdens and save money. Months after the borough council announced it was looking into issuing councillors with iPads, it is now using Google Earth software in planning meetings. Councillors are now allowed to bring laptops into the committee that decides which new buildings and

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

LizardTech Exhibits at GIS in the Rockies Conference

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, will be exhibiting at next week’s 24th annual GIS in the Rockies Conference in Denver, Colo., in booth number 105. In conjunction with the conference, on Monday, Aug. 29th, LizardTech is hosting three free 90-minute workshops covering LizardTech’s new MrSID Generation 4 (MG4™) format

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Depiction 1.3.2 Release Candidate Available

Depiction 1.3.2 Release Candidate is available for download now. We are providing this update to our users before releasing it to the general public. Please report any issues, questions or praise you have regarding this release at support. To all our users on the US east coast, stay safe and let us know how you

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Neighbourhood Planning Toolkits and Guidance

There is an appetite for guidance for developing Neighbourhood plans so we asked the Neighbourhood planning group on LinkedIn to share what already exists and what is being developed. We were inundated with suggestions which we have categorised loosely into seven types. We are, in this instance collating and giving access to these tools but they are

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

WKCD Project Illustrates Fosters’ Commitment to Architectural Integrity in a New Hong Kong

Hong Kong has played an important role in the evolution of the Foster studio, since winning the competition for the Hongkong and ShaHong Kong has played an important role in the evolution of the Foster studio, since winning the competition for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in 1979.

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Change of Director at University of Nottingham’s Centre for Geospatial Science

Prof. Mike Jackson, the founder and Director of the Centre for Geospatial Sciences (CGS) at the University of Nottingham, retired at the end of July. He has been succeeded in the role of Director by Jeremy Morley.  Mike joined the University of Nottingham in 2005 from QinetiQ where he had been Director of the Space