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Aside from being St. Valentine's Day, Friday is notable as it marks the beginning of the first ever ETHx class, "AMRx – Autonomous Mobile Robots". ETHx is the moniker being used by the prestigious technical institution ETH Zurich for the MOOC courses they're delivering as part of edX. This is exciting: despite the fact I […]
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I've been a fan of TED for many years (and am very happy to be working for a company that has sponsored such an important conference). Yesterday was the first time, though, that I actually had the chance to attend a TED (or in this case, TEDx) event in person. TEDxLausanne was held at the […]
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I was up in the mountains with my family, over the weekend, but as Sunday was "un jour blanc" I decided to stay on an extra day and make the most of the superb conditions (i.e. bright sunshine and fresh snow) predicted for Monday. Hence the title of this post, which is the British equivalent […]
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It's been a really interesting and productive few days here in Tel Aviv. In a sense it was too short a trip – I was penned in by commitments during the weekends either side of it – but despite that a lot was achieved. I didn't get to see very much of the city – […]
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I arrived yesterday morning on the EasyJet flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv. I'd ended up spending the previous night at an airport hotel – I'd have had to leave home at 3:30am, otherwise – which meant a somewhat more tolerable 4:40am wake-up. I admit I'd been a bit concerned about security, arriving in Israel […]
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I was up in Adelboden, this weekend, for the Men's FIS World Cup Slalom and Giant Slalom events. Yes, just watching – not participating 🙂 – although I did get the chance to catch a few much gentler slopes on my snowboard during the course of the weekend. On the Saturday – during the Giant […]
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Yesterday I was reminded that 200 sessions from Autodesk University 2013 were recorded and have been made available on-demand – for free! Many great classes are available as well as the keynote and innovation forum sessions. I believe you need to create a free Autodesk account to view them, if you don't already happen to […]
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I'd like to wish a very "Happy New Year" to all readers of the Through the Interface blog. I'm currently still up in the mountains, enjoying a few more days of snow before diving back into work, but thought I'd post a quick message to wish you all the best for the coming year. Over […]
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During the general wind-down before Autodesk's annual "week of rest", I've been spending some time this week getting more of my AutoCAD-Kinect integration samples working with the pre-release Kinect for Windows 2.0 device and SDK. Things are actually working pretty well: all samples – barring those that rely on capabilities that aren't yet part of […]
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Back in March, I signed up via Code.org to see if I could get help teach basic programming skills to kids. It didn't work out mainly because of my location – Code.org is really focused on the US – but I stayed on their mailing list and have been following their updates with great interest. […]