It is Alive in the Lab

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Olly the Octopus 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 →

TechSpot: Lilium's electric jet taxi completes its first flight

TechSpot is a leading computer and technology publication that is read daily by thousands of users, tech enthusiasts, IT decision-makers and gamers. Hence, TechSpot is home to over eight million readers every month. TechSpot aims to deliver breaking tech news... Read more →

Forge Customer Showcase: JELD-WEN

While living in California for decades, I replaced all of the windows in two of the homes my wife and I owned. It's an expensive proposition that every homeowner wants to get right. There are a variety of window manufacturers... Read more →

Book Review: Farsighted by Steven Johnson

I work as part of a corporate strategy team. Our focus and our group name is Strategic Foresight. Whereas our product development teams look five years into the future when putting together our product roadmaps, our team tries to look... Read more →

Facebook proposes a blockchain currency called Libra

A blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value. A few days ago, Facebook announced its plans for a blockchain solution. In terms of... Read more →

Build Secure, Run Secure, Stay Secure

Trust is a hard thing to gain but an easy thing to lose. We recognize that when our customers use our cloud services, they are trusting us with their data. Reeny Sondhi is an Autodesk VP and our Chief Security... Read more →

Fear not: The Future of Design and Make includes Robots, Autonomous Vehicles, and Artificial Intelligence and Humans Too

Our team focuses on strategic foresight. Strategic foresight is a practice of looking systematically at the future, understanding fragmented indicators that suggest possible futures, and developing a point of view about how to respond. We use imagination to envision how... Read more →

Forge Customer Showcase: VINCI Facilities

Autodesk Forge is our set of cloud-based developer tools used by our community of customers and partners to derive more value from their design and engineering data. The Forge platform unlocks the power of design and engineering data so developers... Read more →

Forge Customer Showcase: InsiteVR

When you use a computer program, you do so via its User Interface (UI) by clicking on elements like menu buttons, using menu pull-downs, or entering commands. When you want to automate a task so you can get the same... Read more →

Autodesk intern Courtney Yu's Cheat Sheet for Autodesk Products

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, our team has two interns for the summer. We wanted to give them an overview of Autodesk products (and there are many). Although we could have sent them to the list of... Read more →

What's the future of intellectual property?

To catalyze Autodesk's long-term thoughts about the industries we serve, Autodesk brings in external experts who have a different perspective and point of view. With this in mind, the Visiting Fellows program was established. The Autodesk Visiting Fellows Program recruits... Read more →

Forge Customer Showcase: ePermitHub

Although Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and associated documentation with sample code, Forge is also a community of developers who create customized solutions for Autodesk customers and partners. The Forge team often features these companies... Read more →

A Game Plan helps envision how to Decide on Bold Steps in Problem-Solving

Autodesk got its start when we democratized CAD technology by making it available on personal computers that were much less expensive than special-purpose workstations so that small mom and pop architect shops could graduate from using their drafting tables. We... Read more →

Alex Landis: The Evolution of Cloud Financial Management

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces, documentation, sample code, and a community of customers and partners who develop customized solutions suited to their workflows. Although customers and partners are free to choose their own service providers, our... Read more →

A Project Vision is a great way to Envision Your Future when Problem-Solving

Autodesk got its start when we democratized CAD technology by making it available on personal computers that were much less expensive than special-purpose workstations so that small mom and pop architect shops could graduate from using their drafting tables. We... Read more →

Meet Our Two New Interns

Today's blog post comes from my colleague, Jeremy B. Carter. I included his middle initial because Autodesk has two employees named Jeremy Carter. Jeremy and I are part of the Strategic Foresight team under Autodesk Research. We're involved in looking... Read more →