Talare: Ed Parsons Har passerat
Onsdag 12 oktober 2016 11:15 - 11:30 A3/4
Talare: Ed Parsons
Moderator: Fredrik Brunes
Very soon the very way we interact with information systems will be based on our location, both explicit at a particular place and time and implicit when happen to be close to a particular device. This will have a transformative effect on not only the design of computers but also the design of the built environment. This transformation may be as great in it's impact as the coming of railways in the 19th century.
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Ed Parsons Talare
Geospatial Technologist
Google
Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using geography. In this role he maintains links with Universities, Research and Standards Organisations which are involved in the development of Geospatial Technology.
He is currently co-chair of the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group.Ed is based in Google’s London office, and anywhere else he can plug in his laptop.
Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organisation from mapping to Geographical Information. He came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division.
He earned a Masters degree in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institute of Technology and holds a Honorary Doctorate in Science from Kingston University, London and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Ed is married with two children and lives in South West London.
Fredrik Brunes Moderator
KTH