In April 2015, the Center for Geographic Analysis at IQSS will hold its annual conference—and this is a special anniversary year.
1965 was a seminal year in the history of GIS, as the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics (subsequently Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, LCGSA) embarked on a 20+ year journey of research and development in theoretical geography, computer cartography and spatial analysis...
... which gave us many of today's essential ideas and early versions of tools now embedded in GIS, remote sensing, and geospatial science. Plan to celebrate this 50th anniversary—along with the 10th birthday of the CGA itself!—with special presentations from original participants from those heady days, from the Graduate School of Design and other parts of Harvard, as well as GIS scholars and researchers from around the world, looking back to those early days of "the Lab", and tracing its legacy of seminal developments into the present...
...and on into the future.
The 2015 CGA Conference will take place at CGIS on April 30 and May 1, 2015, co-hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and UCGIS. You can register at the CGA website here.
