It is Alive in the Lab

It's The Rock Boat XVIII Time

This week my wife and I will be on The Rock Boat. This is our seventh voyage. The Rock Boat is a 5-day cruise that departs from New Orleans, Louisiana to Cozumel and Progreso, Mexico where rock concerts are featured... Read more →

Autodesk Uses Intensive Residency Program for Generative Design

A typical software development project has a series of phases: The Development phase includes a collection of Agile sprints where the team rapidly iterates on: specifying a small amount of functionality, designing the code to provide it, coding to realize... Read more →

TigerStop: Gulf Coast Premier Mechanical Contractor Re-plumbs Its Prefab Shop

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party... Read more →

EU General Data Protection Regulation is an extension of existing Autodesk Policies

The growing importance of data to our customers' success is undeniable. The data we and our customers generate is powerful and “with great power comes great responsibility.” As Autodesk collects, processes, and utilizes data, we have a great responsibility to... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Custom Sound Exhibit

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our... Read more →

Jon Pittman: What is Corporate Strategy?

I work in the Office of the CTO. My boss is Jon Pittman, who is the Autodesk VP of Corporate Strategy. Jon has also been a Lecturer at the Haas School of Business of the University of California at Berkeley.... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Writing Comes Full Circle Exhibit

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our... Read more →

2017 Update: The Continuing Benefit of the Dollars and Cents of My Home Energy Audit

My wife, Sheryl, and I have a townhouse at Crown Harbor in Alameda, California. In a series of blog posts, I outlined the process we followed in 2011 to make some energy improvements to our home: A Modest Proposal: Results... Read more →

It was an Autodesk Gallery Extravaganza at #AU2017

Autodesk has a gallery on the second floor of our One Market office. The gallery includes about 60 exhibits that showcase the work of our customers who make places, things, and media (movies, games, TV shows). In addition to One... Read more →

Updated: A little more detail behind the Autodesk Forge APIs

Let's say you've been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You've got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings. If you'd like to leverage that data to showcase your work to your customers, then Autodesk Forge is... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Cooking Clean Exhibit

"Come on baby, [bio]lite my fire. Jim Morrison, The Doors, 1967. Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are... Read more →

Merry Wang: Life Sciences Platform Published in Nature Methods

Merry Wang is a senior research scientist in the Office of the CTO. Today's blog post was authored by Merry. Our Autodesk Life Sciences team is developing a cloud-enabled platform for the new generation of protein engineering, integrating DNA design,... Read more →

Updated: What's so hot about that Autodesk Forge thing?

Let's say you've been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You've got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings. If you'd like to leverage that data to showcase your work to your customers, then Autodesk Forge is... Read more →

How Astralink powers Augmented Reality utilizing Autodesk Forge

image source: Astralink Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to... Read more →

Happy New Year from Autodesk Forge

It's 2018! Where does the time go? Happy New Year from the Autodesk Forge team. Let's do lunch sometime. Have your application call my application. A celebration is alive in the lab. Read more →