A beautiful idea--a Nobel Prize for GIS. (Edge Nodes).(Column)

From: GEO World | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Waters, Nigel | Copyright information

Before you dismiss the premise of this month's "Edge Nodes" column as grandiose, read on and then decide if we need a Nobel Prize in GIS.

Nobel prizes are topical due to Russell Crowe's Oscar-nominated portrayal of John Nash, who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his "pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" (http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/). Nash's discovery of what's now known as the Nash Equilibrium was the co...

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