IGIS

Announcing a new NSF-funded program at UC Berkeley: DS421. Three Grand Challenges motivate our program: Data. The revolution occurring in data acquisition, assimilation, and analysis, and the resulting challenges and opportunities for the research community and society at large.

The final day of the Dev Summit has come and gone. Some highlights: Today was all about JavaScript for me. Started with a look at the "good parts" of Dojo.

It was another great day at the Dev Summit. The morning started off with a keynote address from John Tomizuka, Co-founder and CTO of Taqtile, a mobile app development company based in Seattle.

Here is Erez Cohen's excellent talk from the BIDS feed: http://bids.berkeley.

FOSS4G NA 2015 is going on this week in the Bay Area, and so far, it has been a great conference. Monday had a great line-up of tutorials (including mine on PySAL and Rasterio), and yesterday was full of inspiring talks.