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Dr. Kit Miyamoto, CEO of Miyamoto Intl. and a structural engineer, gave this morning’s keynote on disaster relief and engineering at the Bentley Be Inspired event in Amsterdam. The company provides seismic risk consulting, and there is also a nonprofit arm Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief that travels the world in response to disasters. Miyamoto’s talk [...]
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Bentley Systems speaks internally of the ‘integration tax’ that they pay in developing their software with an eye toward cross-platform interoperability and their continued commitment to backward compatibility of their software. Bentley is unique in this regard as most software companies of their tenure have had complete code base transitions that have broken the ability [...]
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Greg Bentley discusses the next wave of digital city modeling as the “Semantic City,” where connections and interactions between systems accomplishes better continuity and better performance. With greater interoperability, there is also the opportunity to better model and simulate the holistic performance of the city, particularly in response to events. The key to achieve this [...]
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Bentley Systems announces today the acquisition of Pointools, a hardware-neutral point cloud handling software. The point cloud creation hardware is reducing in cost, and becoming more integral to infrastructure projects. To date, the size of point clouds has made them problematic because they overwhelm storage and query capabilities. Pointools Vortex engine has been integrated into [...]
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A repeated theme in many sessions at the GeoInt 2011 Seminar in San Antonio this week has been the need to understand local social, tribal, religious and cultural context both in today’s conflicts and in those to come. What the people think and do has been central to current nation-building mission, and there is much [...]
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Today at the GeoInt Seminar in San Antonio the focus was placed on integration of intelligence, and the efficiencies that can be gained with greater IT alignment. With planned budget cuts in the double-digit billions of dollars in the next ten years within the intelligence community, half of those savings are expected to come from [...]
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Dr. Greg Smith, deputy director of Innovision and chief scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), gave the keynote at this morning’s Pre-Symposium Science and Technology Forum as a pre-cursor to the GeoInt Symposium in San Antonio. He began by highlighting the 15th anniversary of NGA that was celebrated last month with the opening of [...]
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Kevin Pomfret, executive director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, spoke this morning at the Autovation event regarding privacy issues related to spatial information and the smart grid. With the move to collect more and more data from phones, imaging sensors, smart meters, and other sensor sources, there is a growing concern about [...]
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