CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
By: Dr. Alex Liu, Chief Data Scientist, IBM & Director, RMDS Lab
Abstract: More and more organizations are embracing data science, but the success ratios of data science projects have been low - at the 30% level for years per surveys conducted by Gartner and others. To attack this problem and help mitigating risks of other associated issues such as the high turnover ratio of data scientists, an ecosystem approach with AI...
Tufts University, School of Arts & Sciences: Science, Technology, and Society
Description
The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program at Tufts University seeks a Part-Time Lecturer to teach one Geography/STS course in Spring 2020. The course should include an introduction to GIS and cartography, but should also teach broader principles in the field of human geography, including space and place, scale, territory, community, and the built environment. The course syllabus should feature social science readings about the role of technology in mediating people’s relationship to space and should engage with theoretical...
As Geography Departments are dramatically disappearing from universities across the US and geographic knowledge is diffusing itself and taking on new forms, this conference identifies a set of urgent questions pertaining to the future of geography: Where and how is knowledge related to space, geography, and mapping currently produced, articulated, and preserved? Which forms will geography most likely take on in the years to come? Who “owns” geographic knowledge and how is it used? How does the current distribution of geography departments worldwide inform and transform our idea...
