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Archive for February, 2007

GIS Special Interest Group Meeting - Thursday March 1

We have scheduled the first GIS Special Interest Group meeting for next Thursday at the Humanities Center. This meeting is to plan and discuss the formation of the group to focus on GIS technologies and their uses for teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences.

Thursday, March 1 at 12:00 p.m.
Baker Room, Stanford Humanities [...]

February 27th, 2007
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Visualizing Knowledge: David Rumsey and Kären Wigen, February 27, 2007

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 4:30pm, the Sawyer Seminar on Visualizing Knowledge: From Alberti’s Window to Digital Arrays presents a panel discussion between David Rumsey and Kären Wigen on “Visible Knowledge Systems.”

February 21st, 2007
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Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences and Humanities

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign held a workshop last December 2006. From their site:
The objective is to reflect on how spatial thinking affects substantive
findings and changes the way research questions are approached, and to
assess the role of computation. The goal is to end up with useful
insights and [...]

February 19th, 2007
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