Brian Albright

Earlier this year, Elon Musk announced that his SpaceX company would put data centers into Earth’s orbit to help meet the enormous need for compute power generated by artificial intelligence (SpaceX has merged with Musk’s xAI project) while reducing the n... See more

At its Realize LIVE Americas 2026 event in Detroit this week, Siemens unveiled its new Intelligence Center X industrial artificial intelligence (AI) orchestration software that allows people and AI agents to work together with shared context, workflows an... See more

RAPID+TCT 2026 shifted venues to Boston this year, bringing leading hardware, software, and materials vendors from the 3D printing space together. The show floor was busy, and while the usual suspects like Stratasys, HP, and 3D Systems had large booths, m... See more

Each year in the spring I head down to Georgia for the NAFEMS ASSESS meeting, which this year was rebranded as the ASSESS Simulation Leadership Summit 2026. It’s an unusual conference—limited to fewer than 100 attendees, it draws executives from leading s... See more

Cloud-based engineering tools, from cloud-based CAD to simulation to product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM), are increasing their share of the software market. Though there was some early resistance because of security, laten... See more