It's alive. It's alive. It's alive.

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Welcome to my new blog. Some of you may already know me as "that DWF guy" from my work on the Beyond the Paper blog. I recently returned to my roots and accepted a new position within the company - software development manager for Autodesk Labs. This blog gets its name, "It's Alive in the Lab," from the original Frankenstein movie. I vividly recall Dr. Frankenstein's words as lightning sparked his creation to life: "It's alive. It's alive. It's alive."

Autodesk Labs is our home for new prototypes, experiments, applications, and technologies. Members of the Autodesk Labs team analyze and develop new and viable market driven business ideas. VP of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews, likes to point out: "We are not a think tank like Bell Labs." Created by the development teams at Autodesk, our technologies include everything from web services to plug-ins to new applications. Customer feedback from Autodesk Labs helps us decide the future of our projects. The Autodesk vision is to provide the solutions that allow our customers to experience their ideas before they are real.

This blog will highlight the people, processes, and technologies that bring you the latest technologies from Autodesk. At Autodesk, there's a lightin' storm a-brewin'. Regular readers of this blog will soon come to know - it's alive in the lab.