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GeoWorld.

GIS world.

SECTION 1. GEOGRAPHY, GIS, AND GISCIENCE. What in the world is a geographer?

The two faces of geography

Geography is to GIS what physics is to engineering

Real survivors wrote geography

Did Einstein really say geography is harder than physics?

Musings on the revenge (and forgiveness) of geography

Geography's public image impacts GIS

GIS has an image problem

What can GIS do to save geography?

UCGIS plans to advance geography and improve science

How can critical GIS be defined?

Should GIS enter the world of consilience?

GIS and the technologies of knowing: a proposal for GIScience?

SECTION 2. GIS, HISTORY, AND POLITICS. Have we seen one hundred years of GIS?

Technology returns to its origins

Foresman's Geomander shows GIS origins

Knowing the past can provide focus for the future

Can we learn from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919?

GIS courts counterfactual history

Geographic ignorance drives foreign policy

The geographic flaw that toppled communism

An evil king used geography to enslave the Congo

Can GIS and geopolitics prevent war?

How Canada gave GIS to the world and then lost almost everything

Hire an anthropologist to find the future of GIS

SECTION 3. GIS, SPATIAL ANALYSIS, AND THE ART OF MAPPING. A new spatial statistic is needed to estimate "probability-of-fit"

Geographic analysis yields new Neandertal theory

Scientific integration means GIS

What are the ten most beautiful formulae in GIS?

Can GIS save Banff from the "invigorating scent of dollar bills?"

Beethoven, Picasso and GIS: is spatial really special?

Examining the art of mapping

Are Choropleth maps good for geography?

3-D geovisualization is coming of age

A perfect distortion? Cartograms deserve more attention

The Yora of the Amazon and the power of a map

What can GIScientists learn from Marshall Islanders?

SECTION 4. GIS AND HOT-BUTTON ISSUES. GIS helps estimate populations at risk

The barrage of Baghdad changes everything

Rethinking GIS and (homeland) security

GIS supports the war on terrorism in many ways

How will GIS help fight the war on terrorism?

GIS needs to be part of the solution

Experience the power of PPGIS

How can we combat application erosion and bloatware

GIS and criminal shadows

Peace on Earth: using GIS for military purposes

GIS and public health: are we there yet?

Why we shouldn't collect or use race data

SECTION 5. GIS, ETHICS AND EDUCATION. Is GIS a privacy threat?

Consider both sides of GIS ethics

GIS and ethics: out of sight, out of mind?

Think twice about kid-tracking

GIS is a surveillant science

Are robotics laws applicable to location-based services?

GIS and Martus: technology with a conscience

GIS and the bitter fruit: privacy issues in the age of the Internet

Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer with GIS?

GIS technology reveals "revenge effect"

Company profiles make business sense to GIS students

Do we need a GIS certificate?

Zen and the art of GIS maintenance

Can GIS reverse the decline in boys' grade school performance?

Should GIS stay out of schools?

SECTION 6. GIS, FIELDWORK AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING. Fieldwork in a digital world

GIS advances the field tradition in geography

Global GIS demands global fieldwork

GIS and the value of everything

Will Ubicomp make GIS disappear?

GIS as media?

SECTION 7. DIGITAL EARTH AND THE IMPACT OF GIS. Geographic exploration of digital earth

Does GIS make us smart?

Is GIS prepared for the virtual reality age?

Research underway on GIS, memory aides and intimate technology

What can we learn from Google's success?

Will GIS last?

Geographer questioned at Pearly Gates.