McHenry Forum - Crash Reconstruction & Simulation

Feb 2014: Be sure to see our preliminary msmac3D benchmark results. Please note: Special discounts and exclusive Beta participation will be offered in the next 30 to 60 days ONLY to CURRENT medit32/msmac clients . If you are current, Thank you! We will be sending out emails in the next month. If you...

Feb 19, 2014: Below is a chart of the Speed Factor comparison between msmac , our currently distributed 2D smac program with our soon to be released msmac3D . We used the inputs for msmac validation runs from our RICSAC97 paper For msmac3D we first ran it in '2D' mode to insure the results are the s...

Feb 2014: As we prepare for our release of our msmac3D program in the near future, we have recently begun actively running speed benchmark tests on msmac3D and the results are amazing! The msmac3D simulations of vehicles colliding is approaching real-time with simple optimization of the code (our 2D...

Feb 16, 2014: NY Times: Is the Universe a Simulation? by Edward Frenkel With simulation in the title, and programming in the text, and my being a simulation programmer, i simply HAD to post this little ditty up. Mathematical truths exist and are merely waiting for us to discover them. Consider some ...

Feb 16, 2014: NY Times: Social media, a Trove of Clues and Confessions More on social media issues which can help in some cases, which raise 5th amendment issues in others, and which can wreak havoc on jury deliberations and decisions: "Like everyone else, jurors are accustomed to reaching for ...

Feb 12, 2014: NY Times Graco Recalls Car Seats Over Faulty Buckle Graco Children’s Products is recalling almost 3.8 million car seats because faulty buckles can make it hard to free the child in an emergency, the company said on Tuesday. NHTSA is asking Graco to increase the recall by 1.8 million ad...

Feb 2014, Salon The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles and Rare Events Happen Every Day Seemingly random occurrence, miracles and other things: maybe not so? In a new book on probabilities, David J. Hand writes that through the "law of truly large numbers' that because we live ...

Jan 2014: Raymond R. McHenry was invited to give the 2014 ASME William F. Milliken Invited Lecture The Lecture is a part of the ASME AVT Conference , August 17-20, 2014 in Buffalo, NY The William F. Milliken Invited Lecture Annually honors one outstanding researcher, engineer or educator, in memory ...

Jan 22, 2014: NY Times: Car Seats to Face Crash-Test Standards which begins: Federal regulators moved on Wednesday to address a glaring hole in auto safety rules by proposing new crash-test standards to better protect children in car seats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announce...

MIT Technology Review: Jan 22, 2014: The Power to Decide:What’s the point of all that data, anyway? It’s to make decisions which begins: Back in 1956, an engineer and a mathematician, William Fair and Earl Isaac, pooled $800 to start a company. Their idea: a score to handicap whether a borrower woul...