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... > social science subjects > geography > geoinformatics > geographic information science > organizational and institutional aspects > Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis

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Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis  

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  • Howard Fisher, a Chicago architect, founded the Laboratory for Computer Graphics in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University with a grant obtained from the Ford Foundation in December 1965. Fisher had observed the computer maps produced by Edgar Horwood's group at University of Washington at a training session held at Northwestern University in 1963. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis]

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