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Project Chronicle Demonstrated at AU 2011

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0700

George Fitzmaurice, Thomas White, and Tovi Grossman demonstrated an early preview of the current productization effort of Project Chronicle, at Autodesk University, 2011, in Las Vegas Nevada. Autodesk University is the world's premier Autodesk learning and networking event for designers, engineers, and industry and technology leaders.

Ramtin Attar Invited to Join Panel Discussion at Annual Meeting of the "Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture"

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The ACSA Annual Meeting is a forum for architectural administrators to rethink existing educational models in light of dramatic changes in global, national and regional economies, demographics, regulation, technology and the environment. Ramtin Attar discussed the broad conceptual underpinnings of some existing trends in technological research that bear deep implications for how we evaluate design knowledge and intentions. He also highlighted how “before we can measure innovation as a function of design discipline, we need to find new measures of design learning and thinking so that we can better combine our fragmented views of design as a whole.

Autodesk Researchers show the important role of Design and Simulation for Sustainability

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0600

In his article, “Swimming Upstream in Sustainable Design”, Autodesk researcher, Azam Khan, offers his insights on HCI sustainability efforts not only downstream (primarily focusing on consumption), but also the importance of including upstream considerations (primarily focusing on the design and manufacturing phases). Also, in the September/October issue of Architectural Design, Andrew Marsh and Azam Khan promote innovative directions for sustainability in the built environment in “Simulation and the Future of Design Tools for Ecological Research”. Along with the article, Autodesk was selected for the coveted cover image, a work developed together with fellow Autodesk scientist, Duncan Brinsmead.

Two Papers Accepted at Premiere Building Performance Simulation Event

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Autodesk Researchers, Rhys Goldstein, Michael Glueck, Alex Tessier and Azam Khan, have their two papers, "Real-Time Compression of Time Series Building Performance Data" and "Space Layout in Occupant Behavior Simulation" accepted at the IBPSA-AIRAH Building Simulation 2011 Conference, held this year in Sydney, Australia. The conference, being held in mid-November, is considered the premiere event in the building performance simulation field.

Francesco Iorio's Collaboration on the Enumeration of Costas Arrays of Order 29 to be Published in "Advances in Mathematics of Communications" Journal

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Konstantinos Drakakis, Francesco Iorio, Scott Rickard, and John Walsh will have their paper, "Results Of The Enumeration Of Costas Arrays Of Order 29" published in an upcoming issue of the Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) journal, as a direct supplement of their earlier publication on Costas Arrays of order 28 and required a total of 366 CPU years to compute.

Autodesk Research Involved with Bioweathermap Project to Investigate Germ Diversity

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0600

In collaboration with the Knight Lab (including George Church and Rob Knight) and the Personal Genome Project (with Jason Bobe), Autodesk Research helps codesign the demo application for the Bioweathermap project, a collaborative science initiative launched last year to collect and track residual microorganisms worldwide from the surface of paper currency using high-speed DNA sequencing. Read more about the project through Forbes.com

Autodesk Research Goes 5/5 at ACM UIST 2011

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0600

The User Interface Research Group had all five of their research paper submissions to the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) accepted for publication. UIST is one of the most prestigious and competitive conferences in the field of human-computer interaction, and will take place in October of 2011, in Santa Barbara, CA. The papers will be presented by Autodesk Researchers Justin Matejka and Wei Li, and Autodesk Research Interns Michael Ekstrand, Jennifer Fernquist, and Michelle Annett.

The accepted papers are:

IP-QAT: In-Product Questions, Answers & Tips
Justin Matejka, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice

Medusa: A Proximity-Aware Multi-touch Tabletop
Michelle Annett, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, George Fitzmaurice

Sketch-Sketch Revolution: An Engaging Tutorial System for Guided Sketching and Application Learning
Jennifer Fernquist, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice

TwitApp: In-product Micro-Blogging for Design Sharing
Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George Fitzmaurice

Searching for Software Learning Resources using Application Context
Michael Ekstrand, Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George Fitzmaurice

Paper accepted at the MARC Symposium

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Autodesker researcher, Francesco Iorio, in collaboration with Marco Fais have their paper “Fast Fluid Dynamics on the Single-chip Cloud Computer” accepted at the 3rd Annual Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC) Syposium, an event which promotes research and scientific exchange within the domain of many-core applications research including Intel's SCC experts and MARC researchers. Fais will be presenting the work at the event, which will take place at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (IOSB) in Ettlingen, Germany on July 5-6, 2011.

Rhys Goldstein to Speak at "Symposium on Occupancy & Plug Loads in Building Simulation"

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Among speakers from both academia and industry, Rhys Goldstein, a member of the Environment & Ergonomics Research Group at Autodesk will present his work, "Using Machine Language to Create Customizable Occupant Models", on evening of May 19th at the Symposium on Occupancy & Plug Loads in Building Simulation. The speaker session, hosted by the Boston Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-USA), will include presentations and an open discussion on the challenges and current best practices in accurately capturing building occupancy and plug load intensities within building energy models.

6 Papers Presented by the User Interface Research Group at ACM CHI 2011

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0600

6 Papers published by the User Interface Research Group were recently presented at the ACM CHI 2011 conference in Vancouver, Canada. This included 4 presentations by past research interns: Xiaojun Bi from University of Toronto, Xing-dong Yang from University of Alberta, and Parmit Chilana from University of Washington, who presented two.