"I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future."
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Jack Dangermond is an influential American geographer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Esri, a leading software company specializing in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Born on January 26, 1945, in Redlands, California, Dangermond's passion for geography began early, leading him to earn a degree from California State Polytechnic University and later a master's degree from Harvard. Under his leadership, Esri has transformed the way spatial data is utilized, leaving a profound legacy in academia and industry, while championing the power of geography to solve complex global challenges.
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"GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future."
Jack Dangermond"GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework."
Jack Dangermond"I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape."
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"GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software."
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