Harvard University

摘要

Harvard University for many years had no geography department, yet faculties and students have played an important role in GIS and there is now considerable academic activity focused on interoperability. In the 1960s Howard T. Fisher (1903-1979), who directed the Laboratory for Computer Graphics (LCG) at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), was a pioneer in adapting computerised technology to the field of geography. One of his students was Jack Dangermond, Harvard MLA 1969 and the founder of ESRI Inc.