The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 5- November 8, 2019 in Chicago, IL.
The purpose was to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems.
The goal of this track was to present visionary ideas at the conference.
First Place- Revolutionizing Tree Management via Innovative Spatial Techniques
Yiqun Xie, Shashi Shekhar, Richard Feiock, and Joseph Knight
Second Place- Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions (Vision Paper)
Hussein Al-Olimat, Valerie Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Joy Prakash Sain
CCC provides travel awards to authors of the winning papers. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference!