SSI Director Dr. John P. Wilson was recently invited to speak at the USC Marshall School of Business on the topic of GIS and Location Analytics. The full video (90 mins) is available to view on demand through this link.
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SSI Attends UNIGIS 2012 International Network Conference in Salzburg, Austria
The UNIGIS 2012 Annual Business Meeting was held last week (October 24-28) in Salzburg, Austria and featured more than 30 representatives from partnering Universities and study centers worldwide, including a delegation from USC Spatial Sciences Institute. Attendees spent three days discussing strategies to advance Geoinformatics in the following core areas: distance learning opportunities, geospatial software interoperability, industry…
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GIS Enhances Research on Medieval Japanese History
USC history Ph.D. candidate Michelle Damian added GIS skills to her research toolbox through SSI’s introductory course. She then found herself using these tools while on a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship in Japan and shared these thoughts. My project focuses on the maritime cultural landscape of Japan’s medieval (14th – 16th centuries) Seto Inland Sea area, examining how people…
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GIST Student To Present Election Research at Regional Arc Users Meeting
GIST M.S. student Luke Wenschhof cares about your vote. Or more specifically, he cares about the way in which all votes are counted, and the anomaly of the US electoral college in which a candidate can be elected president without winning the popular vote. Luke investigated the geographic consequences of the use of the electoral…
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