ISPRS WG IV/5

This position is for an outstanding early career academic (post-doc) with a strong grounding in geographic information science and a specialization in geovisualization or geovisual analytics. You will work in a new research project, RISER: Resilient Information Systems for Emergency Response. RISER is developing new technologies and information systems capable of capturing, collating, and communicating timely and relevant information, even in the extreme and unexpected circumstances surrounding an emergency. In this position, your responsibilities will be conducting independent and collaborative…

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I ‘nicked’ the title entirely from a newspaper (news .. website, not truly paper I suppose). They covered it nicely and I think it’s a new relevant to our readership here so I’m happy to point at the original link. I quote, as an appetizer: “The Center for Urban Science and Progress, a new research center that recently welcomed its first students and faculty in downtown Brooklyn, certainly has its eyes on the city.” http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/09/school-devoted-entirely-science-cities/6977/ And I quote again: ”…

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Various members from our working group was present in the International Cartographic Conference which took place about two weeks ago in Dresden and many were actively involved presenting papers, chairing sessions and participating/holding business meetings. I figured an update regarding this conference may be of interest to our readers: the proceedings of the ICC2013 is now online, along with the map exhibition catelogue (which ought to interest the readers of this blog) as well as the technical exhibition catalogue. All…

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After two days of pre-conference workshops, today the 26th ICC conference began (http://www.icc2013.org/). The whole week we have talks on maps from all aspects. Several of our members are here in Dresden too – if you are into maps (well, of course you are!) take a look at the official tweet account @icc2013DD or the hashtag #icc2013DD.

1) Two new permanent lectureships with an emphasis on visualization and visual analytics are available in the Department of Computer Science at City University London. Post 1: Visual and Analytic Computing [permanent, full time, deadline June 10, 2013] Academic focus on Information Visualization, Visual Analytics or Information Retrieval: http://j.mp/city2013visualAnalyticComputing Post 2: Applied Data Science [permanent, full time, deadline June 10, 2013] Academic focus on Information Analytics, Information Visualization and business processes: http://j.mp/city2013appliedDataScience Talk to Jo Wood or Jason Dykes about…

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The ISPRS Conference on “Serving Society with Geoinformatics” ISPRS2013-SSG (http://www.isprs2013-ssg.org/), jointly organized by ISPRS TC II, III, IV and VII, will take place in November 2013 in Antalya, Turkey. It will be joined by two workshops: Object Extraction for 3D City Models, Road Databases and Traffic Monitoring Laser Scanning Please circulate the link to anyone interested!

You surely have heard of “MOOCs” (short for Massive Open Online Course). There are hundreds of classes that one can participate online, by prominent professors from well-known universities. And hundreds, and sometimes hundreds-of-thousands people seem to do it (take these classes). This is an exciting development as it allows people to get a taste of something potentially very expensive*, and likely to be unreachable because of boundaries and other space/time constraints, even if you had the money. If you actually…

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An exciting position for a software developer magician and UI guru with a spatial twist is available in the AURIN Project, run from the University of Melbourne. If you are fluent in JavaScript, have a good understanding of cartography, data visualization, and need a challenge developing rich user interfaces on the Web, look no further! More info here. –Martin

Below are two TEDx talks by fellow geovisualization/GIScience folks with two different focuses we just had to share with you: Here, Mark Graham (Uni Oxford) talks about “Internet and information geographies, and the overlaps between ICTs and economic development” with plenty of visuals (~22min): TEDxBradford – Mark Graham – Internet & Information Geographies And here, Jo Wood (City Uni, London) talks about bikes! 16 million journeys by bike in London, with beautiful visualizations (~15 min): London Moves, visualising 16 million…

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