shrug-l: SHRUG 2010 Workshop Panel Discussion

[Eric_Songer at URSCorp.com]

There was a lot of GIS going on.  There was ESRI (only Arcinfo), 
Intergraph, GRASS.  A lot of government grant money for universities. 
LandSat had been around for 10 years and people were doing classifications 
and trying to analyze the results.  The WMD's were already using Arcinfo. 
I used Arcinfo 20 years ago and it was version 4.3 so it had been around 
for awhile.  I did my thesis (1985-87) with custom software based on 
IMGRID software written at Harvard in the mid 70's when Jack Dangermond 
was a grad student there.  We had computer science students customize 
routines for our analyses.

Google search something like "+imgrid gis harvard".  It's interesting 
history.

Thanks,

Eric Songer, GISP  |  Tallahassee Office URS  |  Infrastructure GIS Lead
1625 Summit Lake Drive, Tallahassee, FL, 32317
850-574-3197  |  eric_songer at urscorp.com



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Greetings!
      If the time does not conflict with one of my presentation 
assignments, I would be interested.  My only question is the bit 
about the History of GIS since I only started in 1994 although I did 
work with mainframe computer programs to map things back in 1969 or 
1970.  Given the capacity of the mainframes back then, what GIS was 
being run 20 some years ago? .

C. Henry Depew

At 03:10 PM 11/1/2010, Brown, Janelle wrote:
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>Hello everyone,
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>This year we would like to conduct panel discussions as part of our 
>concurrent speaker sessions. Possible topics would include the 
>History of GIS (for practioners with 20+ years of experience), the 
>Future of GIS (discussion about what the future holds for GIS) and 
>possibly a technical panel, where we could have a Question and Answer 
segment.
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>If you would like to participate as a member on any of these panels 
>or have suggestions for panel discussion topics, please contact me.
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>Thanks!
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>Janelle Brown
>GIS Analyst
>Transportation Statistics Office
>Florida Department of Transportation
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>Email: Janelle.Brown at dot.state.fl.us
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