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Monumental Stairs: How Computational Design Guided Collaboration and Innovation at the U.S. Air Force Academy

Clark Nesxen

A Computational Approach Designing and coordinating such a non-standard, continuously changing form far exceeded the capabilities of traditional drafting and coordination methods. To overcome this, our team employed computational design to translate the ambitious vision for this stair into a buildable, efficient, and budget-conscious reality.

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Bringing Marketing’s Vision to Life with Computational Design: 2022 Holiday Card Story

Clark Nesxen

Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions. It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively.

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The Metaverse explained for university leaders: opportunities and decisions ahead (4/4)

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

The question is to what extent universities feel the need to step into the developmental space around XR technologies, and who should they be watching. Apple has not made much public noise around XR technologies beyond integrating AR functionalities into its recent iPhone releases. Which evolutionary pathways will win out is unknown.

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AI Mindscape Prompting

eLiterate

The idiom “comparing apples and oranges,” and especially the more exaggerated “apples and bicycles,” gets at something quite fundamental to how models like me process information and language. ChatGPT’s visualization of this post Michael: Today’s post is going to get both a little geeky and a little trippy.

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How the Patton Building Project Team Applied Computational Design to Overcome Aggressive Inflation

Clark Nesxen

Completed in 2022, Blue Ridge Community College’s Patton Building features an appealing, complex façade designed using computational tools to overcome the pandemic’s rapid price escalation without sacrificing design quality. Computational design is more than a process shift. It has the greatest impact as a change in how we think.

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The Louisiana cyberattacks that weren't—or maybe were?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Without delay, the colleges set to work performing restorative activities on their respective computer networks, according to Meg Casper Sunstrom, deputy commissioner for strategic communications at the Louisiana Board of Regents. Then the account added, “This is all of the information currently available for release.”

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Designing A Successful Engineering Building: A Case Study of Fitts-Woolard Hall

Clark Nesxen

The lab classification can also inform the type of energy recovery that can be utilized if any exhaust air filtration or treatment is required, the duct materials, and whether there are any redundancy or continuous operation requirements for the HVAC equipment.