The Risks of Software Innovation: a Case Study of the Harvard Lab

Author: Chrisman, Nicholas

Source: Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Volume 15, Number 3, July 1988 , pp. 291-300(10)

Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society

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Abstract:

Innovation in cartography has come to depend on the design of software. This essay recounts two cycles of software development at the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics which used different models for intellectual control. In retrospect, each model had its successes, but in neither period were there enough new professionals trained to expand the field of digital cartography.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1559/152304088783886892

Publication date: 1988-07-01

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