Introduction to Spatial Analysis Using GIS

[Pages:27]TUgis ... 1988 - 2012

Celebrating 25 Years of Service to the GIS Community in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic Area

Copyright ? 2012 John M. Morgan, III All Rights Reserved

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1988 (1st Annual Conference)

June 2, 1988

Ian L. McHarg

University of Pennsylvania

Geospatial/technological events

First TIGER files released by the Census Bureau

Over 45 million PCs in use in US MS DOS 4.0 released

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1989 (2nd Annual Conference)

June 7-8, 1989

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Geospatial/technological events

Internet-based hypertext system proposed ArcInfo 5 released Intergraph MGE released

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1990 (3rd Annual Conference)

June 6-7, 1990

Jerome E. Dobson, Ph.D.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Larry Kirkpatrick

Westinghouse/Landmark GIS

Robert T. Aangeenbrug, Ph.D.

University of South Florida

Kimball Forrest, Ph.D.

Resource Data, Inc.

Michael Kevany

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Geospatial/technological events

World Wide Web invented Microsoft Office released Windows 3.0 released

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1991 (4th Annual Conference)

June 5-6, 1991

Ian L. McHarg

University of Pennsylvania

Costis Toregas, Ph.D.

Public Technology, Inc.

Jack Dangermond

Esri

William E. Huxhold, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin

Geospatial/technological events

NSF opens Internet to commercial use First Web browser released ArcView released JPG graphics format introduced PDF file format introduced

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1992 (5th Annual Conference)

March 18-19, 1992

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Kimball Forest, Ph.D.

Resource Data, Inc.

Michael Kevany

PlanGraphics, Inc.

C. Dana Tomlin, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Walter J. Doherty

IBM Corporation

Geospatial/technological events

First image posted to the Web MSGIC formed The Internet grows to 50 Web servers Linux OS developed (open source

software)

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1993 (6th Annual Conference)

March 25-26, 1993

David Sinton

Intergraph Corporation

Nancy Tosta

U.S. Geological Survey

Bernard Niemann, Jr., Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin ? Madison

Geospatial/technological events

First cell phone with PDA functions First commercial Web site launched Xerox PARC Map Viewer released (first

mapserver based on CGI/Perl) Executive Order 12906 creating the NSDI

signed First Web search engine developed Intel Pentium microprocessor released Windows NT released

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1994 (7th Annual Conference)

March 31 ? April 1, 1994

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Michael F. Goodchild, Ph.D.

University of California Santa Barbara

Jack Dangermond

Esri

Ian L. McHarg

University of Pennsylvania

Geospatial/technological events

GPS network becomes fully operational Open Geospatial Consortium founded Iomega Zip Disk (100MB) released ArcInfo 7 and ArcView 2 released Netscape Navigator released

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