Santa Fe Complex

Andrew Cohill, president and CEO of Design Nine, described the U.S. broadband model as broken in a discussion on broadband initiatives in an afternoon technical talk at santa Fe Complex. “If the overnight delivery business ran like telecommunications,” Cohill said, “each home would have three roads for package delivery. Each carrier would own and deliver packages on its proprietary road.” There’s another option, however, which is a developing a “single, very high-performance” open fiber network with a wireless overlay. Continue Reading »

Peter Jackson’s enormous success with the Lord of the Rings trilogy depended in no small part by the technical breakthroughs that create the complex world of Middle Earth. In particular, “Peter Jackson and his team made great breakthroughs in [artificial intelligence]” that made the orcs and other demons believable, according to Terry Borst, who spoke at this week’s WedTech in the Great Room at Santa Fe Complex. So intelligent, in fact, that Jackson found a small contingent of orcs in the rear of a battle scene that decide to run away. Continue Reading »

Registration is now available for Pangea Day. The event is free but your registration will give us a head count for refreshments.Donations are appreciated to defray the costs of the event. (If you’re in Albuquerque instead of Santa Fe, head over to Flying Star Downtown where a Sushigig event will be hosting Pangea Day.) To register, go to PangeaSantaFe or click the following link:
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Experiment yesterday at sfComplex using webcam and a projector as a cheap 3D scanner for use on Sandtable project.

see details here how you can do the same