Automation World

Lessons Learned Building Operator Interfaces in FactoryTalk Optix

How thoughtful UI object selection can improve usability, reduce PLC programming, and streamline application development.

Bioinspired strategy creates complex 3D curved structures via programmed shrinkage

The shape of biological structures, ranging from flower petals to the limbs or organs of animals, is often naturally best ...

White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted

The report comes in the midst of Trump’s aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and ...
IEEE

Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data

Abstract: In this work, we study 3D object detection from RGBD data in both indoor and outdoor scenes. While previous methods focus on images or 3D voxels, often obscuring natural 3D patterns and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Objects Begin to Tell the Story of Women’s History in America

Thirteen artifacts from the National Museum of American History chronicle profound changes in the life of the nation Photographs by Jessica Antola by Robin Marantz Henig The sexual revolution didn’t ...
The Stranger

Arts Districts Galore! Concerned Artists! (And Does Seattle Finally Have a Style Scene?)

Congratulations are in order for Georgetown, which just received official designation as one of the city’s five Arts and Cultural Districts, and to Pioneer Square, which received a similar (but ...