Almost every object we use is developed with computer-aided design (CAD). Ironically, while CAD programs are good for creating designs, using them is actually very difficult and time-consuming if ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

Computer-aided designs, such as this model of a fingertip-sized heart pump, can reduce the number of physical prototypes that must be made. Computer-aided design (CAD) is a tool intended to facilitate ...

Architectural students in Mexico used AutoCAD to produce this conceptual design of a soccer-stadium-and-shopping complex. * Screenshot: Autodesk * Autodesk's former CEO Carol Bartz used to be fond of ...

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The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

Has structural bioinformatics advanced enough to form the core of a drug discovery program? A new generation of companies exploiting structure-focused technologies is counting on it. Protein structure ...