Autodesk
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Yesterday evening I popped along to La Cantine in Colombier to attend a get-together of former Autodesk Neuchâtel employees. I was only expecting a few people to be there, but there must have been somewhere between 50 and 100 of my former colleagues there during the course of the evening. La Cantine is a restaurant run by an old friend and former Autodesker, Antonio Barroca, and I've mentioned both Antonio and his restaurant in the past. If you're ever in the Neuchâtel region, do stop by for some great food with a wonderful atmosphere. Here's Antonio fanning the flames of…
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An Autodesk DevCon is coming back to San Francisco in 2023! It will be held on September 6th and 7th at Pier 9, between the Klamath Ferry and our Technology Center. Photo © The Bay Area Council Foundation It's worth noting that there is a fee to attend the event (this is currently $150 but will increase to as much as $300 on the day of the event). Space is limited, given the venue, so it is worth registering as soon as you know you can attend – there's a very good chance that we won't have tickets left to…
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The CFP period for this year's AU has simply flown by – mainly because it's turned out to be a busy period between personal milestones and work travel – and today (May 15th) is the last day to submit your proposals for the event. Over the weekend I went ahead and finalised last-minute changes to mine and clicked submit. The titles (as shown above) are: Monitoring and visualizing data from the MX3D and Dar Smart Bridges Channeling Minecraft to analyze architectural spaces with VASA and Dynamo Both are variations on proposals I submitted for last year's event (but obviously weren't…
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Last week I was in Dallas, Texas, for TechX 2023, Autodesk's annual internal event for technical and design staff. As the technical content shared at the event is company confidential, I'm mostly sharing pictures of people I had the good fortune to hang out with, during the course of the week. There was quite a bit of "real" work going on, too, though, so hopefully you won't come away with the impression that it was just a week-long party. Ahem. As there's no direct flight to Dallas from Switzerland, I chose to fly via Heathrow from Geneva on the Sunday…
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I'm packing my bags soon for another trip across the pond for our annual, Autodesk-internal geekfest, TechX 2023. This year's event is being held in Dallas, Texas, a city I haven't visited in perhaps 20 years. I'm sure a lot has changed – we'll see! Photo credit: Robert Hensley, CC license. In any case TechX isn't about the venue – or even about the technical content, which, while often really interesting, is also watchable remotely during and after the event – as much as the chance to (re)connect with people. In that sense it's similar to the Autodesk University experience,…
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It's that time of year again: the Call for Proposals for AU 2023 is now open! This year's event is back in Las Vegas – it's being held at The Venetian from November 13th-15th. Interestingly this is a Monday to Wednesday slot, presumably to avoid overlap with the Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix. I expect it's going to be very hard to find a hotel room in Las Vegas after AU is over, this year! I always find that the best way to be sure to get to AU is to get a class accepted, something that didn't happen…
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It's been really exciting – and sometimes even overwhelming – to see the fast-paced developments in the space of Generative AI over the last few months. It's clear that Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI systems are increasingly playing a key role in our Future of Work. One thing that's often glossed over is the need for human input when building and refining these models: aside from being trained on vast datasets generated from websites and the broader internet, huge teams of people are helping train these AI models, providing "human processing within a computational framework", to quote a…
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On Sunday night I headed to Geneva airport to take a late flight to Copenhagen for a special Sustainability-focused APS Accelerator. I knew something was up with my flight when at 7:49pm the gate information that was promised to be shown at 7:25pm still wasn't posted. (This is Switzerland. Something was badly wrong with this scenario.) It turns out the inbound flight from Nice was delayed by an hour, which meant our flight to Copenhagen would arrive at midnight rather than 11pm. Walking through Copenhagen's beautiful airport at that time of night was highly surreal. It was completely deserted. After…
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Last week Rhys Goldstein and I had a blast joining Sol Amour and Jacob Small during the Dynamo Office Hours session on Packages of Note, something I mentioned in a recent post. We spent some time stepping through a few samples for both Space Analysis and VASA, to give a rough sense of what's involved in using each. Next week I'm heading over to Denmark for the first half of the week, where I'll be attending the APS Sustainability Accelerator in Copenhagen. If you're going to be in Copenhagen next week and want to meet up for a…
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Over on Instructables there's a student design challenge featuring the 5m Dar Smart Bridge. It's called "Make It Bridge", and the idea is that contestants – who have to be students aged between 13 and 21 and based in the USA or Canada (excluding Quebec, for some reason) – can place the geometry of the Dar bridge, or another bridge of their choosing, in surroundings to which it adds value. It sounds like a lot of fun. I like the guidance given: In choosing the site for the bridge, you might consider what it would look like from below and…