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Amancharla received a plaque in recognition of his achievement last Friday at the Freshman Dean's Office from Linda Paras, president of NAE, and Peter Mancini, a manager in the education department of Autodesk, Inc., the company which manufactures AutoCAD...
Most people have never heard of the fourth largest software company in the world. That's because Autodesk, based in San Rafael, California, has amassed a quiet fortune by hawking its big-ticket computer-aided design product, AutoCAD, to a demanding elite: high-tech engineers, industrial designers and architects...
...since former Sun Microsystems executive Carol Bartz took the helm in 1992, Autodesk has gone from a one-product wonder to a diversified empire. In 1994 the firm launched a multimedia design group to build gee-whiz tools for game designers and film producers. Last week Autodesk (800-215-9742) released its first consumer offering, Picture This Home! Kitchen, which packs a Ferrari-class graphics engine into a $50 CD-ROM. Remarkably streamlined (especially considering that it was built by the team behind AutoCAD, a program that takes years to master), the software lets users dream-design a kitchen...