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TUgis … 1988 - 2012 Celebrating 25 Years of Service to the GIS Community in Maryland

and the Mid-Atlantic Area

Copyright © 2012 John M. Morgan, III All Rights Reserved

1988 (1st Annual Conference)

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June 2, 1988

Ian L. McHarg

University of Pennsylvania

Geospatial/technological events

First TIGER files released by the Census

Bureau

Over 45 million PCs in use in US

MS DOS 4.0 released

1989 (2nd Annual Conference)

June 7-8, 1989

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.


Internet-based hypertext system proposed

ArcInfo 5 released

Intergraph MGE released

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1990 (3rd Annual Conference)

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June 6-7, 1990

Jerome E. Dobson, Ph.D.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Larry Kirkpatrick

Westinghouse/Landmark GIS

Robert T. Aangeenbrug, Ph.D.

University of South Florida

Kimball Forrest, Ph.D.

Resource Data, Inc.

Michael Kevany

PlanGraphics, Inc.


World Wide Web invented

Microsoft Office released

Windows 3.0 released

1991 (4th Annual Conference)

June 5-6, 1991

Ian L. McHarg


Costis Toregas, Ph.D.

Public Technology, Inc.

Jack Dangermond

Esri

William E. Huxhold, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin


NSF opens Internet to commercial use

First Web browser released

ArcView released

JPG graphics format introduced

PDF file format introduced

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March 18-19, 1992

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Kimball Forest, Ph.D.

Resource Data, Inc.

Michael Kevany

PlanGraphics, Inc.

C. Dana Tomlin, Ph.D.


Walter J. Doherty

IBM Corporation


First image posted to the Web

MSGIC formed

The Internet grows to 50 Web servers

Linux OS developed (open source

software)

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March 25-26, 1993

David Sinton

Intergraph Corporation

Nancy Tosta

U.S. Geological Survey

Bernard Niemann, Jr., Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin – Madison


First cell phone with PDA functions

First commercial Web site launched

Xerox PARC Map Viewer released (first

mapserver based on CGI/Perl)

Executive Order 12906 creating the NSDI

signed

First Web search engine developed

Intel Pentium microprocessor released

Windows NT released


March 31 – April 1, 1994

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Michael F. Goodchild, Ph.D.

University of California Santa Barbara

Jack Dangermond

Esri

Ian L. McHarg



GPS network becomes fully operational

Open Geospatial Consortium founded

Iomega Zip Disk (100MB) released

ArcInfo 7 and ArcView 2 released

Netscape Navigator released

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June 7-8, 1995

H. Dennison Parker, Ph.D.

GIS World, Inc.

Joseph K. Berry, Ph.D.

Berry & Associates, Inc.

Ian L. McHarg


Michael F. Goodchild, Ph.D.

University of California Santa Barbara


The dot-com boom starts

Amazon.com and eBay founded

Microsoft Internet Explorer released

Windows 95 released

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June 5-6, 1996

Lawrence Ayers

Intergraph Corporation

John D. Bossler, Ph.D.

Ohio State University

Thomas Horton

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Robert W. Marx

U.S. Bureau of the Census


Esri MapObjects released

MapQuest.com released

The Internet grows to 100,000 Web sites

DVDs introduced

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May 28-29, 1997

The Honorable Parris N. Glendening

Governor of Maryland

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

Ronald F. Abler, Ph.D.

Association of American Geographers


Landsat 7 and IKONOS launched

The Internet grows to 1,000,000 Web

sites

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June 2-3, 1998

H. Bishop Dansby

American Cadastre, Inc.

Nancy G. LaVigne, Ph.D.

National Institute of Justice


ArcInfo 8 released

Google founded

XML 1.0 specification released

TerraServer founded

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June 2-3, 1999

The Internet and GIS: Exploring New

Mapping Opportunities

Brandon Plewe, Ph.D.

Brigham Young University

First themed conference

Held at the Baltimore Convention Center


GIS Day launched by Esri

ArcInfo 8 released

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May 1-2, 2000

Geographic Visualization: Turning a Sea

of Data Into Data You Can See

Mark Monmonier, Ph.D.

Syracuse University

Robert Plante

Raytheon Systems Co.




sites

ArcIMS 3.0 released

ESRI Geography Network founded

The dot-com bubble starts to burst

The open source movement begins

End of “selective availability” for GPS

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May 7-8, 2000

The Internet and GIS: Evolution or

Revolution?

Jack Dangermond

Esri



Windows XP released

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March 25-26, 2002

Thinking Outside of the Box: New GIS

Users and New GIS Applications

Lyna Wiggins, Ph.D.

Rutgers University


ArcWeb Services launched

BlackBerry smart phone released

Microsoft MapPoint.net launched

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June 2-3, 2003

Reflections on the Past and Solutions for

the Present

John C. Antenucci

PlanGraphics, Inc.

The Honorable James Gehringer

Governor of Wyoming


URISA’s GIS Certification Program

established

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March 22-23, 2004

Planning, Prevention and Response: GIS

and Homeland Security

Jack Dangermond

Esri

Dennis R. Schrader

Maryland Office of Homeland Security


ArcGIS 9 released

Yahoo Maps introduced

Facebook introduced

NSDI created by Executive Order


sites

OpenStreetMap founded

The term “Web 2.0” is coined

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March 21-22, 2005

Mapping the Human Landscape: GIS for

Public Health, Safety, and Social

Services Applications

Charles M. Croner, Ph.D.

National Center for Health Statistics

Karen C. Siderelis

U.S. Geological Survey


Google Maps launched

Google Earth launched

First mashups created

OpenLayers created by MetaCarta

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March 20-21, 2006

GIS and Local Government: The Base of

the Pyramid

Randy Johnson

Hennepin County, Minnesota

Kevin Neimond

National Association of Counties


Intel Core 2 Duo Processor released

Wikimapia launched


sites

The terms “crowdsourcing” and

“neogeography” are coined

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March 19-20, 2007

Geocollaboration: Collaborative Methods

for Working with Geospatial Data

Jack Dangermond

Esri

Doug Richardson

Association of American Geographers


ArcGIS Explorer released

Apple iPhone introduced

Google Street View introduced

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2008 (21st Annual Conference)

March 17-18, 2008

Democratizing GIS: New Tools for

Meeting the Public Demand for

Geospatial Information

Congressman John P. Sarbanes

D-03, Maryland

Michael Jones

Google Earth

Mark Reichardt

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

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2009 (22nd Annual Conference)

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March 16-17, 2009

Web GIS: New Tools for Data Sharing

and Collaboration

Sean Gorman, Ph.D.

FortiusOne

Clint Brown

Esri


Google Earth incorporates historical

imagery

ArcGIS.com launched

Google Maps traffic layer announced

Windows 7 released

2010 (23rd Annual Conference)

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May 24-25, 2010

GIS in Budget Constrained Times: Doing

More With Less

Beth Blauer, J.D.

Maryland StateStat

Ahmed Abukhater, Ph.D., GISP

Esri


ArcGIS Online launched

ArcGIS 10 released

iPad introduced

MapQuest begins using OpenStreetMap

350,000 Web sites use the Google Maps

API


March 23-24, 2011

Cloud GIS: A New Way for Organizations

to Deliver GIS Content and Services

James Fee

WeoGeo, Inc. and James Fee GIS Blog

Ken Miller

Maryland Geographic Information Office


Esri Technical Certification Program

launched

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March 19-20, 2012

Celebrating 25 Years of Service to the

GIS Community in Maryland and the Mid-

Atlantic Area

Barney Krucoff

Maryland Geographic Information Office

Jack Dangermond

Esri

James Higgins

Esri

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The Legacy of the Towson University GIS Conference

25 annual conferences

22 conferences held at Towson University; 3 conferences held at the Baltimore

Convention Center

49 days of GIS professional education

63 plenary presentations

2,568 individual presentations and mini-workshops

109 pre- and post-conference workshops

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