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The Laboratory for Computer Graphics is assembling a staff of specialists in such fields as urban geography, statistics, computer science, and urban planning.
Ford Foundation announced a $294000 grant to the Graduate School of Design to support research on a new technique for computer map-making yesterday.
Developed two years ago by Howard T. Fisher, director of the new Laboratory for Computer Graphics, the technique is being used at other universities for work in climatology, oceanography, and oil geology. Harvard, Fisher said, is in the forefront of computerized map-making as applied to urban planning...
Fisher pointed out that computer-made maps could be extremely useful in nearly every field where visual display of data is possible. He said that researchers often compile mountains of data but limitations of time and money generally prevent them from converting the data into maps. It is practically impossible...
With the new technique, the researcher will direct the computer to print a "base map" of the region under study. When the relevant data is fed into the machine, it is automatically displayed on the "base map."