Geography Colloquium May 2014 - Matthew W. Wilson, GSD and University of Kentucky

Speaker: Matthew W. Wilson, Visiting Faculty, Harvard GSD and Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky

Location: CGIS South S250

Title: Geography, Harvard, and Digital Mapping

Abstract: The origin stories that surround geographic information systems focus in on the 1960s, as a period of intense advancements in computer supported cartography. In this presentation, I examine one site of such innovation: the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics (and Spatial Analysis), founded by Howard Fisher in 1965. By examining the growing interest and expansion of computational methods in the analysis and representation of spatial data, I reconsider and rescale what we might mean by innovations in digital mapping.

 

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