ANNOUNCEMENT
3 June, 2004
GSD The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical
Information Science, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the recipients
of the award for the academic year 2003-2004:
2004 Prizewinner: Eric Gieseke for his project: " GeoSurf", which describes a project undertaken for CSCI E40: "GIS and Web Mapping" at the Harvard Extension School for "making NOAA buoy data more easily understood and accessible to more people."
The judges' comments included: " Spatial data from disparate sources
are brought together and analyzed. .. it is genuine spatial analysis, probably
to a greater degree than any other submission. Graphical presentation is excellent....
"Great work. Excellent data integration ... great visualization and spatial
analysis. Use of several software packages having in mind the theoretical framework
and goals that they want to pursue. ... the presentation is excellent.... I
look forward to a book or to read the thesis about this project."
Professor Stephen Ervin
Chairman, HTFisher Prize Committe
Members of the Committee
Mr. Paul Cote, Design School
Professor Ed Glaeser, Economics
Ms. Lucia Lovison-Golob, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Professor Peter P. Rogers, Division of Applied Sciences
Professor Louise Ryan, School of Public Health
Professor Jennifer Smith, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Howard T. Fisher Prize for excellence in Geographic Information Science was established (read press release ) in 1999 to promote and reward student work in this broad and potentially interdisciplinary area, from both undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard University.
See http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/prizes/gisprize for more information.
Howard Fisher, a geographer and mathematical cartographer, founded the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1965. His work and others' from that laboratory led directly to the computer-based technology that subsequently became widely known as GIS (Geographic Information Systems.) Fisher valued the communicative and explanatory power of maps, and developed techniques from computer and information science to expand the capabilities for producing and analyzing maps, and managing spatial data in general.
For questions or commments , please contact Stephen Ervin ( servin@gsd.harvard.edu) or Lucia Lovison-Golob (lovison@eps.harvard.edu )