McHenry Forum - Crash Reconstruction & Simulation

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...

Jan 7, 2014: MIT Technology Review: CES 2014: Audi Shows Off a Compact Brain for Self-Driving Cars A book-sized computer capable of driving a car could help the technology reach the mass market by Tom Simonite which begins: Carmaker Audi showed off a book-sized circuit board capable of driving a car...

Jan 6, 2013: CBSNews Blood test could help diagnose concussions Trying to overcome the subjective nature of the diagnosis of concussions, doctors are working on a blood test to help determine objectively whether a concussion has occurred. "Right now when we identify a concussion it is purely su...

Dec 24, 2013: NY Times: Alan Turing, Enigma Code-Breaker and Computer Pioneer, Wins Royal Pardon Which includes: Nearly 60 years after his death, Alan Turing, the British mathematician regarded as one of the central figures in the development of the computer, received a formal pardon from Queen Eliz...

Dec 25, 2013 NY Times: New Tests for Brain Trauma Create Hope, and Skepticism which starts: Revelations in recent years that thousands of former football players might have severe brain trauma from injuries sustained on the field have set off a rush in the medical community to seize the potentially ...

NHTSA Data Confirms Traffic Fatalities Increased In 2012 Highway deaths over the past 5 years remain at historic lows 2012 NHTSA data 2.jpg 2012 NHTSA data.jpg WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released the 2012 Fatalit...

MIT Technology Review: Chip Saves Power by Fudging the Figures Apparently in proving that algorithms control our Probably, Approximately Correct! lives, computer scientists are now looking at fudging the numbers to elicit more speed and power from smaller chips. From the article: Apparently scaling ...

Q: On another forum someone posted the question asking what files are required to be provided when you use a Computer Simulation or Animation in court? A: In over 40 years in almost every state in the US, we have found for every situation where computer simulation OR animation were used by either s...