CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
May 2006
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May 5, 2006
HARVARD RETURNED TO GEOGRAPHY
This past Friday, Harvard Returned to Geography under a bright spotlight. Some say it was Geography that Returned to Harvard. Certainly the presence of the past, present, and next presidents of the AAG showed that at least some geographers were coming to Harvard, if only for a day. The presence of David Maguire and Jack Dangermond from ESRI made clear that this event was not being ignored by the GIS software industry either. But the reality is that our efforts will continue to depend on each one of us in the geographic analysis profession to build on what we have already created, so that geographic analysis will contribute to excellence in teaching and research of many disciplines.
Slide presentations, a poster gallery and video files of speaker presentations will be available on-line. Please check the CGA web site for updates: http://www.gis.harvard.edu
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GIS HELP DESK RESOURCE EXPANDED
When:
Every Monday, 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Where:
Cambridge Campus
Knafel Building , CGIS Main Computer Lab
(Concourse floor of CGIS)
1737 Cambridge Street , First Underground Floor
Cambridge , MA 02138
Longwood Campus
Instructional Computing Facility - Micro Lab
Kresge Building , Lower level
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston , MA 02115
Email: contact@cga.harvard.edu
(Please email us if you want to make an appointment)
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HOWARD T. FISHER PRIZE IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
The deadline for submissions is May 17, 2006. For eligibility and submission requirements please visit:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/fellowships/prizes/gisprize/
or
http://www.gis.dce.harvard.edu/
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Google buys Sketchup
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/04/google_makes_sk.html
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Not Your Old GRASS Anymore (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
http://grass.itc.it
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‘Geocoding’ mapping software goes open-source
http://news.com.com/Geocoding+mapping+software+goes+open-source/2110-1012_3-6064250.html?tag=html.alert
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MetaCarta Signs Contract with Defense Intelligence Agency
http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=242921
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Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11019.html
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For more GIS news on-line see:
Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/
GIS Cafe http://www.giscafe.com/
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