On the job.
COLUMN: ON THE JOB Francis X. Daige Mechanical designer, Ranger Automation Systems Inc., Shrewsbury Age: 53 Family: Single Residence: Spencer Native of: Leicester Time in current job: Five years What do you do?...

Digital land; integrating technology into the land planning process.
9780471722281 Digital land; integrating technology into the land planning process. Sipes, James L. and Mark S. Lindhult. John Wiley & Sons 2007 230 pages $75.00 Paperback HD108 Drawing on a nationwide...

Gary Lock. Using Computers in Archaeology: Towards Virtual Pasts.
GARY LOCK. Using computers in archaeology: towards virtual pasts. xv+300 pages, 58 figures, 1 table. 2003. London: Routledge; 0-415-16620-9 hardback, 0415-16770-1 paperback. HARRISON EITELJORG II, KATE FERNIE, JEREMY HUGGETT & DAMIAN ROBINSON. CAD: a guide to good practice (Archaeology Data Service). vii+ 103 pages, 22 figures, 11...

NEWS IN BRIEF; P/$ rate closed at P55.65 to $1.
The peso rate closed at P55.65 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P55.731. Donors boost BIMP-EAGA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the German development agency GTZ...

Denver's new look: its amazing museum is only part of the story. The mile high city is remaking itself as a world capital of art and architecture.
THE DENVER Art Museum's Daniel Libeskind--designed building, opened in October, looks as though a volcano has exploded with an immense pile of ship parts, jewel-faceted boulders, and giant titanium pterodactyl beaks. In downtown Denver's huddle of sober, upright buildings, it's a profoundly alien presence, but a beautiful one. ...

Jozef Stefan Institute.
Jozef Stefan (1835-1893) was one of the most prominent physicists of the 19th century. Born to Slovene parents, he obtained his Ph.D. at Vienna University, where he was later Director of the Physics Institute, Vice-President of the Vienna Academy of Sciences and a member of several scientific institutions in...

The computer as a partner in design education.
Most people think of the computer as a timesaving technology to be used for processing or documenting information. Professor Kathleen Gibson has a more creative perspective. With her design expertise, she develops ways to interface with the computer so that it offers new value to her students--in effect, it...

AEA Invests Energy in Batteries.
AEA Technology Plc, the UK-based technology services and engineering software company spun off from the Atomic Energy Authority, will focus on three strategic divisions, batteries, engineering software and nuclear science, at the expense of its computer aided design operation. The company has the patent on the lithium...

Autodesk Launches AutoCAD 2000.
Autodesk Inc has announced the next generation of its AutoCAD desktop computer-aided design software yesterday, as anticipated (CI No 3,611). AutoCAD 2000 marks the start of an increased focus on vertical markets, and Autodesk says it will be delivering several other versions of the package, optimized for the mapping,...

Autodesk Integrates Technology From Its Acquisitions.
The release of the new AutoCAD 2000 desktop computer-aided design package marks the continuation of an increased focus on vertical markets at Autodesk Inc. New versions of the package optimized for the mapping, mechanical, architectural and civil/survey/land, and entry-level design markets have been promised for the coming months. Autodesk...