News tagged with software design

Leading design software AutoCAD returns to Macintosh computers

Autodesk announced Monday that its AutoCAD software used by professionals to design everything from skyscrapers to pocket knives is reuniting with the Macintosh computer platform.

Technology / Software

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application

Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Streamlining chip design

In the same way that computing power moved from mainframes to the desktop in the 1980s, it’s now moving from the desktop to handheld devices. But that’s putting new demands on chip designers. Because ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Hunting for gaps

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new model for the behavior of pedestrians and crowds. It can help to understand and prevent tragic crowd disasters, to develop better architectural designs and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New 'hearing' maps are real conversation starters

Innovative sound-mapping software based on human hearing has been developed to help architects design out unwanted noise.

Technology / Software

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New software to improve design tools

A team of Carnegie Mellon University engineers led by Levent Burak Kara and Kenji Shimada have developed software that will let engineers design new products by simply sketching their ideas on a tablet computer.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Select tech workers are in high demand

Thousands of people in Silicon Valley are unemployed and looking for work. But for tech workers with the right skills, work is looking for them.

Technology / Business

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New software tool helps evaluate natural cooling options for buildings

A new, free software tool from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could prove to be a breath of fresh air for architects and designers of ventilation systems for "green" commercial buildings.

Technology / Engineering

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Ships First Multi-chip Package with a PRAM Chip for Handsets

Samsung Electronics today announced the industry's first multi-chip package (MCP) with PRAM - for use in mobile handsets, beginning later this quarter

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

How to turn blueprints green

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even in today's increasingly energy-conscious world, it's rare for the subject of energy efficiency to be addressed in the early stages of designing a new building, whether it's a single-family ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Virtual clay software developed in UB lab 'jumpstarts' design process

A 3-D virtual clay sculpting software package that came on the market this week was developed out of research conducted by University at Buffalo mechanical engineers who wanted to speed up computational design of complex, ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Software Helps Design Energy Stingy Buildings (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new quick, easy to use and free software tool created by NREL developers seamlessly combines the building energy simulation of EnergyPlus with the popular drawing interface of Google's SketchUp, ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Students tackle world's woes at Microsoft Imagine Cup

Hundreds of thousands of college students from around the world vied in a Microsoft challenge to find ways that technology can help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Technology / Other

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Developers of machines receive help from PC game technology

Siemens has used computer games technology in a development software that makes it quicker and easier to design new machines and to simulate their complex functions at an early stage.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Software may speed journey from catwalk to consumer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest fashions could find their way from catwalk to consumers faster in the future, thanks to the work of a student at The University of Manchester.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0