Azam Khan Invited Talk at Columbia University's Post Parametric Lecture Series
August 31, 2010
Autodesk Research invited journal paper for the International Journal of Architectural Computing
August 20, 2010
Best Paper Award at SimBuild 2010 Conference
August 13, 2010
Paper by User Interface Research Group to be published at UIST 2010
June 25, 2010
The ACM Magazine for Students features article by Gord Kurtenbach
June 21, 2010
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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'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:
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, 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."
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.
On May 14, Autodesk senior research scientist Azam Khan presented a talk entitled “Challenges in providing analysis tools and managing information in the design and operation of buildings” to the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, CA. This talk discussed how building dashboard systems are becoming more common in an effort to expose and measure the operational efficiency of a building. However, we go beyond current graphical or floor-plan dashboards and examine advanced 3D real-time sensor-network visualizations as part of a building debugging tool to improve building efficiency.
The Autodesk Research paper “Customizing the Behavior of Interacting Occupants using Personas” will be presented at SimBuild 2010, a conference on the simulation of buildings.
On May 18, Autodesk senior research scientist Azam Khan will present a talk entitled “Simulation for Sustainability” at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, FL. This talk will present, within the realm of building efficiency, an approach to develop an advanced systems-based building simulation framework that will support multi-disciplinary cooperation and collaboration to accelerate progress on minimizing building resource consumption and GHG emissions, while maximizing occupant comfort.
Autodesk Research presented three technical research papers at the ACM CHI 2010 - the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. Two of the papers were nominated for Best Paper Award. The three papers include:
At VRIPHYS 2010: 7th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation, Azam Khan, Head of the Environment & Ergonomics will be presenting a keynote talk entitled: Designing Emergent Behaviour.
The Environment & Ergonomics group at Autodesk Research have their paper titled "Toward a unified representation system of performance-related data" accepted for publication at eSim 2010.
A paper by Autodesk Research high-performance computing scientist Francesco Iorio et al. entitled "Asymmetric flow control for data transfer in hybrid computing systems" will be published in the January/February 2010 issue on Network-Optimized Computing of the IBM Journal of Research and Development, a very prestigious Computer Science research publication.
Autodesk Research will have three technical research papers presented at the ACM CHI 2010 - the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction. The three papers include:
Autodesk's Director of Research, Dr. Gordon Kurtenbach has been appointed as Chair of the research committee overseeing the Graphics, Animation and New meDia "GRAND" Network - a $23.2 million research initiative funded over five years as part of Canada's Centres of Excellence.
The "GRAND" network is part of the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program funded by the Canadian government and consists of research projects and researchers from universities and industries across Canada. Led by scientific director Dr. Kellogg Booth from the University of British Columbia, GRAND will offer student learning and research opportunities and will comprise 30 projects clustered around five themes:
The network will involve 50 investigators along with collaborating researchers and industry partners. It is funded with $23.2 million over five years and headquartered at the Centre for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC), a joint academic collaboration between UBC, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Canada's NCE program brings together Canadian scientists and researchers in the natural, social, health and engineering sciences, as well as others in Canada's academic, corporate, public and non-profit sectors, to focus on issues critical to Canadian industry, society and economy.
The Canadian government is investing $125 million in Networks of Centres of Excellence as well as Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) to help researchers develop their findings into new practical, applied and marketable solutions and will also facilitate and advance the commercialization of technologies, products and services for the benefit of all Canadians.
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/12/01/ubc-to-host-new-national-research-networks/
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Of-Canada-1084006.html
http://www.grand-nce.ca/public/
Autodesk researcher Ramtin Attar was invited to give a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Ramtin's lecture focused on the importance of technical research and discovery in creating a horizon under which a shift in our methods, presumptions and dynamics need to occur before we can address some of the key design challenges in today's world. By providing an outline of Autodesk's key strategic research areas, Ramtin also presented an overview of our current research on simulation as an enabling technology in dealing with complex issues around sustainability and design.
Autodesk Research scientist Jos Stam created the Autodesk Fluid iPhone / iPod touch App that is currently the #1 Free App in the U.K. iTunes Store!
High-performance Computing researcher Francesco Iorio at Autodesk Research presents "Algorithms re-engineering as a fundamental step towards exploitable hybrid computing for engineering simulations" at workshop entitled "Algorithmic Re-Engineering for Modern Non-Conventional Processing Units" in Lausanne, Switzerland co-organized by CECAM - Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire and IBM Research.
Graphics researchers at Autodesk Research and the DGP Lab at the University of Toronto have had their paper Analytic Drawing of 3D Scaffolds accepted at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009. The paper will be presented in Yokohama, Japan in December, and also appear in the ACM journal Transactions on Graphics. This work introduces a new approach to sketch-based 3D design, based on traditional perspective drawing techniques, in particular Analytic Drawing. This approach leads to more robust techniques for constrained inference , allowing artists to draw complex scaffolds of lines and curves from a single view.
Graphics researchers at Autodesk Research have been invited to submit an extended version of their paper "On Expert Performance in 3D Curve-Drawing Tasks" to a special issue of the journal Computers and Graphics. This issue will include four other papers from SBIM 2009, and will appear in 2010.
At IEEE CAD/Graphic '09 conference in China, Dr. Jos Stam of Autodesk Research presented his keynote titled "Nucleus: Towards a Unified Dynamics Solver for Computer Graphics".
In this talk Dr. Stam presented some research he has done over the past few years in developing a unified dynamics solver for computer graphics. Currently many solvers are specialized for a given phenomenon such as fluid flow, cloth, rigid bodies, hair, etc. Having these different solvers interact is sometimes problematic. He proposes to model all matter as a linked particle system having the topology of a simplicial complex.
Autodesk Research Intern Ryan Schmidt presented "On Expert Performance in 3D Curve-Drawing Tasks", at Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Symposium (SBIM 2009), co-located with SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans, USA.
The paper, with co-authors Azam Khan, Dr. Gordon Kurtenbach from Autodesk Research and Dr. Karan Singh from University of Toronto, explores perceptual issues in sketch-based 3D design interfaces revealing some fundamental insights into how accurately humans can freehand draw, even with training. These insights are important considerations to improve the effectiveness of using free form drawing to create accurate 3d models.
Autodesk Research scientists Ramtin Attar and Azam Khan attended CAAD Futures 2009 in Montreal, Canada. Ramtin presented Physic-based Generative Design describing new approaches to form finding based on the concept of a unified physics-based solver.
The Autodesk Research HCI team have their paper on the Community Commands recommender system accepted for publication at UIST 2009. Also Graphics researchers at Autodesk Research have their study on Expert Performance for 3D Curve Drawing accepted at SBIM 2009.
The Autodesk Research group has had their 35 page article on Large-Display research, entitled Toward the Digital Design Studio: Large Display Explorations, published in a Special Issue on Ubiquitous Multi-Display Environments of Human-Computer Interaction, one of the oldest and most prestigious journals of the field.
At ACM SIGCHI 2009, the premiere conference for Human-Computer Interaction, Autodesk Research authors will present three papers given by Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, and Hyunyoung Song.
At the ACM SIGSIM SpringSim 2009 Conference, Azam Khan of Autodesk Research will present his Keynote Talk entitled: Systems Architecture: Learning from Systems Biology in Architecture and Urban Design.
At this years SaskInteractive Summit 2009, Gord Kurtenbach, Director of Autodesk Research, will present the Keynote Talk.
At this years IEEE 3D UI Conference, Gord Kurtenbach, Director of Autodesk Research, will present the Keynote Talk entitled: The Inner Child of 3DUI Research.
As part of Software Engineering '09 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Autodesk Research's Azam Khan has been invited to present his paper with Justin Matejka on The Role of Visualization in the Naturalization of Remote Software Immigrants.
At the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2009, from February 27 to March 1, 2009 in Boston, MA, Autodesk Research authors Michael Glueck and James McCrae from the University of Toronto will present papers on Multiscale 3D Reference Visualization and Multiscale 3D Navigation.
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