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URISA Recognizes Outstanding Papers At Annual Conference

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Park Ridge, IL (November 20, 2002) - The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is pleased to recognize individuals who were awarded the 2002 Horwood Critique Prize. All award winners were honored during the Opening Ceremony of URISA's 2002 Annual Conference in Chicago.

The Horwood Critique Prize is given annually to authors of papers submitted for the Proceedings that represent the best critical analysis of an urban or regional information system design, implementation or application; technology; policy or issue; or contextual environment. Papers are judged upon their candor, critical insights and conclusions, and methods employed. An overall best paper and student paper award are presented.

Horwood Critique Prize Award Winner

Kris Kolodziej, et al., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA The Boston Industrial Archeology Mapping Project

This group of authors details the ongoing pilot project which developed a methodology to superimpose historical and present-day industrial land use datalayers with demographic information and public health data. Using GIS, historic datalayers were overlayed with present-day census and public health data. A customized "spatial filtering" function was developed to highlight "hot spot" areas of significant industrial activity and the accumulated risk potential over a period of time: The result is an "archeology" of risk.

Honorable Mention: D.E. Temple-Smith, G.T. McDonald, C.A. McAlpine, University of Queensland, Australia

Decision Support for Ecosystem Management in Local Government: An Australian Case Study

Horwood Critique Student Prize Award Winner

Kris Kolodziej, et al., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Real-Time Field Data Streaming

This paper describes a field data streaming system and mobile computing application developed by the ENVIT student group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an environmental monitoring application. It discusses web browser based GIS mapping providing users with composite map information accessed from different map services. Specifically, the incorporation of a .NET Web services and ArcIMS to provide field workers with multiple access points to composite map data.

Honorable Mention Student Paper: Shilpam Pandey, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Jon Harbor, Jin-Yong Choi, Bernard Engel, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Internet Based Planning Decision Support System For more information, please contact URISA Headquarters at (847) 824-6300, info@urisa.org.

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