History professor and SSI faculty affiliate Philip J. Ethington, recent GIST grad Samuel Krueger and collaborator Adrian Amler produced two videos that are prominently featured in the exhibit Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The videos cover networks and settlements (an animation of the establish of cities, freeway system, rail system, since the time…
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GeoPortal Now Available Through USC Libraries
To better share spatial resources with the USC campus community, the SSI GeoPortal is now discoverable through the USC Libraries webpage. Searches for GIS, GIST, spatial, geoportal, geography, geo, SSI, ESRI, GPS, ormap will result in the GeoPortal being shown on the results page. If users first select “Databases” then search for GeoPortal, they will be sent directly to…
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Student Success: Devon Munsell
GIST student Devon Munsell reported earlier this year that he was offered a GIS Application Developer position at GIS Solutions in Springfield, Illinois. The position involves developing custom desktop and web applications for a variety of government and private clients. Devon acknowledged the GIST program for providing a turning point in his career, with the Programming and Web GIS courses playing an…
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Shahabi Named Best TA
SSI researcher and Ph.D. student Kaveh Shahabi was named the best TA for 2012-2013 in Computer Science at the Viterbi School of Engineering Ph.D. hooding ceremony last month. Shahabi was previously honored as the USC Esri Development Center Student of the Year in 2012 for the creation of a tool for ArcGIS for Desktop and the ArcGIS…
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