Many people have been expecting a Google OS since the Google Chrome browser was released. I still use Firefox most of the time, but am finding Chrome increasingly attractive because of performance and stability. In […]
According to the US Green Building Council, in the US, buildings account for: 72% of electricity consumption, 39% of energy use, 38% of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, 40% of raw materials use, 30% of […]
There’s a very worthwhile article by Terry Bennett that discusses sustainability from a civil engineering perspective and assesses the impact of building information modeling (BIM). Terry looks at the worldwide trend where architects and engineers increasingly […]
Dave Graveline, host of the technology talk show “Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline,” interviewed Autodesk folks and customers at the Autodesk Gallery at One Market on a variety of topics ranging from mixed reality interfaces […]
Since blogging about the High Line Park in New York, I have uncovered another elevated linear park. This one is in Paris and is on a railway viaduct built in the mid-1800s and disused since 1969. The […]
I blogged recently about the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 that was passed by the House of Representatives and is scheduled for a Senate vote in the near future. Since the bill was […]
The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) publishes a biannual survey of the graduate jobs market in the UK. The most recent Summer survey found that overall job vacancies had dropped by 25%. Almost all sectors […]
The new Federal IT Dash board is available. This is one of the first initatives of Vivek Kundra the new Federal CIO.