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Register
Now - Virtual
Map Gallery
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What
is GIS Day?
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12:00 pm - 2:00pm: Demo Session:
Science Center --- Room 300 H --- (Third floor)
12:00 pm - 7:00pm: Poster Session:
Science Center --- Arcade ---
Science Center -- Lecture Hall D --
Welcome to the Symposium
Goran Ekstrom
Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences,
Lucia Lovison-Golob
GIS Instructor, Harvard Divison of Continuing Education, GIS User Group at Harvard
First Panel: GIS Tools for Achieving a Sustainable Society
Introduction by Edward. O. Wilson
Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus, Curator in
Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Mellon Professor
of the Sciences
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Keynote Speaker: Jack
Dangermond,
President, ESRI, Inc., Harvard MLA '69.
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Panel discussion
Peter
P. Rogers
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Professor of Environmental Engineering (Harvard Division of Engineering/Applied Sciences)
Paul
Cote
Assistant Director of Computer Resources, Lecturer in Urban
Planning (Graduate School of Design)
Paul
R. Epstein
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment,
Instructor in Medicine, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
(Harvard Medical School)
Calestous
Juma
Professor of the Practice of International Development, and
Member of the National Research Council's Committee on Geographic
Foundations for Agenda
21 (John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government)
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm Intermission
Second Panel: GIS as a Tool for Managing Terrorist Attacks and Other Emergencies
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Keynote Speaker: Jim
Hall, PlanGraphics, Inc.
4:20 pm - 5:10 pm Panel discussion
John
H. Shaw
Professor of Structural Geology (Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences)
John
Palfrey
Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
(Harvard Law School)
Andrew
Spielmann
Professor of Tropical Public Health
School of Public Health and Center for International Development
(Harvard School of Public Health)
Lucia Lovison-Golob GIS Instructor (Harvard Division
for Continuing Education)
5:10 pm - 5:20 pm Intermission
Third Panel:
Envisioning a Geospatial Society: Data Driven and Web Serviced?
5:20 pm - 5:40 pm Keynote Speaker: James
Steiner, Oracle Corp.
5:40 pm - 6:30 pm Panel discussion
Peter K. Bol
Harvard College Professor and Professor Of Chinese History
(Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization)
Hartmut Tschauner
Lecturer on Anthropology (Department of Anthropology)
Avi
J. Pfeffer
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
(Division of Engineering /Applied Sciences )
Louise
Ryan
Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics (Harvard School of Public Health)
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm Symposium Adjourned and Reception
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