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ESRI Sponsors Vespucci Initiative Summer School for Location-Based Services
Course to Address Privacy, Location and Tracking Models, Web Services, Push–Pull Services, and Outdoor/Indoor Interoperability Issues
Redlands, California—ESRI announced that it will sponsor the Vespucci Initiative Summer School on geographic information system (GIS) technology, which will focus on location-based services (LBS) and spatial data infrastructures. The summer school will be held at Villa Demidoff in Pratolino (Florence), Italy, from July 28 to August 8, 2003. Leaders from academia and the private sector will meet to discuss important issues in location-based services including privacy, tracking, GIS Web services, and interoperability.
“We are proud to have ESRI sponsor and participate in this initiative. We are looking forward to holding a successful course that will contribute to building the next generation of LBS technology and policy,” says coorganizer Michael Gould, University Jaume I, Spain. “We are working with other sponsors throughout the world, and the course instructors are leaders in both academia and industry.”
The world has become more mobile and technologically sophisticated, increasing the need to locate people, places, and things and derive useful information from mobile locations. LBS is an industry with tremendous potential to provide hundreds of wireless applications for the mass market, enterprise, and government horizontals.
“In the future, the LBS industry will need skilled and educated people who understand all facets of LBS technology including the science behind it and the theories that drive innovation. ESRI is pleased to sponsor events that encourage LBS in schools,” says Jon Spinney, ESRI industry manager for location-based services.
For more information about the summer school, visit http://www.geospatialpartners.com/vespucci/school.html. To learn more about location-based services, go to www.esri.com/industries/locationservices.
About ESRI
For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI software is used in all 200 of the largest cities in the United States and in more than 60 percent of counties and municipalities nationwide. Headquartered in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,500 business partners. ESRI’s goal is to develop comprehensive tools that enable users to efficiently manage, use, and serve geographic information to make a difference in the world around them. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.
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