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Ramtin Attar presentation at New Technologies, Alliances, Practices conference.

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Ramtin Attar will be presenting at New Technologies, Alliances, Practices Conference organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in collaboration with International Facility Management Association. This presentation is titled Extending Building Information Modeling to Real-Time Building Performance Monitoring and it is scheduled for November 2010 at AIA National Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Azam Khan Invited Talk at Columbia University's Post Parametric Lecture Series

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Azam Khan Invited Talk on November 8th, 2010, from 6:30PM until 8:00PM in Wood Auditorium (Avery Hall) at Columbia University's Post Parametric Lecture Series co-presented by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) & the Department of Computer Science (2010).

Autodesk Research invited journal paper for the International Journal of Architectural Computing

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Environment & Ergonomics researchers at Autodesk Research have been invited to submit an extended version of their paper "Physics-based Generative Design" to a special issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC). This paper is titled “Embedded Rationality: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Form-Finding” , and will appear in 2010.

Best Paper Award at SimBuild 2010 Conference

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Researchers Rhys Goldstein, Alex Tessier and Azam Khan at Autodesk Research received the Best Paper Award at SimBuild 2010 for their paper “Customizing the Behavior of Interacting Occupants using Personas”. SimBuild is the IBPSA USA biannual conference and was held in New York City. Rhys Goldstein presented the paper on this topical issue in building simulation.

Paper by User Interface Research Group to be published at UIST 2010

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Autodesk User Interface Research Group members, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka and George Fitzmaurice, will have their paper, "Chronicle: Capture, Exploration, and Playback of Document Workflow Histories", published at this year's premier conference on human-computer interfaces, UIST 2010 held this year in New York City in early October.

The ACM Magazine for Students features article by Gord Kurtenbach

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Gord Kurtenbach, Autodesk's Director of Research, is featured in the Summer 2010 issue of XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students with his article, "Pen-Based Computing". In his article, he writes, "Pens may seem old-fashioned, but some researchers think they are the future of interaction."

Autodesk Research among presenters at the Autodesk Technical Summit ACRD 2010

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Autodesk's Director of Research, Gord Kurtenbach, and team members, George Fitzmaurice (Head of User Interface Research), Francesco Iorio (Head of High Performance Computing Research), and Azam Khan (Head of Environment and Ergonomics Research) presented some of their ideas at the Autodesk Technical Summit ACRD 2010, held on June 9th and 10th in Shanghai, China. The event is seen as an opportunity to celebrate and share ideas, innovations and experiences at Autodesk.

The topics covered:

Common Myths of 3D User Interfaces (Gord Kurtenbach)
Learning and User Interface Research Projects (George Fitzmaurice)
Exploiting Computing Accelerators For Multidisciplinary Design Organization (Francesco Iorio), and
BIM-based 3D Building Dashboards (Azam Khan)

Graphics Keynote given by Jos Stam at Graphics Interface 2010

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0600

At the 36th Annual Graphics Interface Conference held in Ottawa, Canada, Graphics Keynote and Autodesk research scientist Jos Stam presented his paper "Nucleus: A Framework for a Unified Dynamics Solver". The event is the oldest continuously-scheduled conference in the field and attracts papers on innovations and advances in the study of human-computer interactive systems and graphics from around the world.

Autodesk becomes an iGEM Sponsoring Partner

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600

"Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, has joined as an iGEM sponsoring partner. Autodesk will provide iGEM teams with Autodesk Maya® to help animate and simulate in 3D the cell structures used in their projects."

Paper Presented at eSim 2010

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Autodesk Researchers Ebenezer Hailemariam and Ramtin Attar attended eSim 2010 in Winnipeg, Canada. Ebenezer presented Toward a Unified Representation System of Performance-related Data Describing a New Framework for Visualization of Building Performance Data describing a new framework for visualization of building performance data.