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Description:
Grand challenges are not merely routine research
questions or research priorities, but questions and directives that:
- are extremely hard to do, yet are do-able;
- produce outcomes potentially affecting millions, if not hundreds of millions of people;
- require multiple research projects across many subdisciplines in
order to be satisfactorily addressed;
- consist of well-defined metrics such that, through creativity and commitment, can be
realistically met and one knows the end has been reached.
Emerging technologies and societal trends ensure that no set of grand challenges will stand frozen in time. Hence what are the grand challenges of GIScience, especially in the 10-15 years since the earliest deliberations were made via NSF-funded workshops and University Consortium for Geographic Science (UCGIS) agenda-setting? This panel will discuss fundamental scientific questions and forward momentum that will drive the field through the next decade. It serves also as an important discussion in advance of a planned NSF-funded workshop on the same theme, to which the geography/GIScience/ information technology community will be invited.
Anticipated Attendance: 100
Organizers:
Dawn J. Wright
Chaowei Yang
Chairs:
Dawn J. Wright
Participants:
Introducer: Dawn J. Wright
Panelist: May Yuan
Panelist: Tim Nyerges
Panelist: Edward Cope
Panelist: Peggy Agouris
Panelist: Jerry Johnston
Discussant: Chaowei Yang
Sponsorships: Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group
Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group
Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group
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