Celebrating the age of Siggraph
While reflecting on its 50-year journey of industry advancements, Siggraph 2023 is asking for submissions to map a future of exponential innovation.
Prepare to get Vulkanised!
Deadline for submissions to the Vulkanised 2023 developer conference is fast approaching.
Amazon File Cache to simplify hybrid cloud workloads
At its 4th Storage Day virtual event recently, AWS made announcements addressing customers’ need to reduce and optimize storage costs while building the cloud storage skills. AWS says customers want to protect their data and put it to work. AWS is helping customers in that regard. At the event, AWS announced a new service, Amazon File Cache, that provides a … Read more
SIGGRAPH 2022 to showcase the latest innovations in digital art focusing on health
RAY bridges intelligent visualization with cameraless photography (Rayograph) to engage audiences with an interactive poetic experience that conveys meanings. (Source: “RAY” © Weidi Zhang) SIGGRAPH 2022 will take place at the Vancouver Convention Center from August 8 to 11 after being held virtually for two years, enabling Experience, Experience Plus, Full Conference, and Full Conference Supporter registrants to once … Read more
SIGGRAPH 2022 to showcase the latest innovations in digital art focusing on health
SIGGRAPH 2022 will take place at the Vancouver Convention Center from August 8 to 11 after being held virtually for two years, enabling Experience, Experience Plus, Full Conference, and Full Conference Supporter registrants to once again enjoy the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in person within a physical space.
PTC acquires Intland to strengthen its ALM portfolio
PTC has acquired Intland Software, an application lifecycle management (ALM) company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, for approximately $280 million. Intland Software develops the Codebeamer ALM family of products, which includes a next-generation, cloud-based offering that supports agile development and DevOps practices. Acquisitions and embracing SaaS are important parts of PTC’s business strategy. With the acquisition, PTC is looking forward to … Read more
Corel charts a new path to yet another rebirth
In 2019, the venture firm KKR acquired Corel Corporation. According to a story by Ingrid Lunden in TechCrunch, KKR could have paid billion dollars or so to Corel’s previous owner, Vector Capital, also a venture capital company. Vector Capital had an interest in Corel since 2003. The price tag is a bit surprising, but not totally. Corel has been a … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang receives Lifetime Achievement Award by Asian American Engineer of the year
for contributing as a visionary and innovator in parallel computing technology that accelerates the realization of AI computing
RenderMan 24: Pixar’s latest release focuses on look development
Pixar recently released RenderMan version 24. The highlight of this release is a new CPU + GPU hybrid renderer called RenderMan XPU. Pixar says that XPU has been designed for look development and to provide a good match to RenderMan's production pathtracer, RIS. XPU can handle the scale and complexity of Pixar’s feature animation projects. Pixar’s next-gen rendering engine can … Read more
SPECviewperf 2020 V2.0 benchmark is available for free download
The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization Group (SPECgpc) has released an update to its SPECviewperf benchmark. The SPECviewperf 2020 V2.0 benchmark features an updated Solidworks-06 viewset. The viewsets can be downloaded individually. V2.0 supports all the features of SPECviewperf benchmark V1.0 released last October and adds on. The SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark license is available for free to all except the sellers of computers and … Read more
WWDC 21: Apple announces Object Capture API for creating AR experiences
At WWDC 21, Apple previewed its new Monterey version of MacOS macOS 12. On the AR front, Apple has added new APIs to RealityKit 2, the latest version of Apple’s rendering, animation, audio, and physics engine for AR. Apple says developers can create more realistic and complex AR experiences with greater visual, audio, and animation control, including custom, render passes … Read more
Autodesk is acquiring Innovyze for water infrastructure solutions
Autodesk has announced the acquisition of Innovyze, a water infrastructure software company, for $1 billion in cash. Surpassing Autodesk's PlanGrid acquisition for $875 million in 2018, this is the biggest acquisition in Autodesk’s history. The company will enable Autodesk to strengthen its position in the water and wastewater infrastructure industry. Innovyze is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The company provides smart water … Read more