Colloquia: Tim McGrath on 9/26 (FWD)

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There will be time available to meet with him before his talk.  Please go to
http://www.cs.umn.edu/news/colloquia.php?action=include_schedule&id=251&term
=fall_2005&title=Fall%202005 to view the available times and email Bonnie
Klein (klein at cs.umn.edu) to schedule it for you.


MapPoint:  The Power of Location
Monday, September 26, 2005

Presenter: Tim McGrath
Affiliation: Microsoft Corporation
Email: tmcgrath at microsoft.com
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint
Time: 11:15 - 12:15
Location: EE/CS 3-125
Sponsor: Department
Host: Shashi Shekar
Schedule: View Extended Schedule Details

Abstract:

Did you know that the MapPoint web service handles over 25 million
transactions per day? Or that MSN's Virtual Earth web site attracts over 1.2
million unique users weekly? With the high-resolution geographic data, it
offers unprecedented opportunities for users to better plan trips, find
real-time location on a map, view maps on mobile devices, find maps or
driving directions, or even locate satellite images. However, significant
computational challenges have been posed by those applications with the
explosive growth of the volume of geographic data, e.g., data fusion and
spatial query processing.

In the talk, we will provide an overview of the MapPoint products to tackle
these challenges and an inside look at the technologies. Since launching the
first consumer mapping CD-ROMs over 10 years ago, the MapPoint Unit has
grown and developed a product portfolio that includes a hosted web service,
mapping web sites (e.g., Virtual Earth), desktop applications for consumers
and information workers (e.g., Street and Trips and MapPoint), Windows
mobile applications and server products for locating devices in real time.
By enabling customers to locate and track key enterprise assets, as well as
analyze geospatial data, MapPoint enables customers to increase revenue,
reduce operational cost and complexity, and improve business decisions.
MapPoint also harnesses the power of location to make it easy for users to
leverage our features for personal planning and decision making at work or
at home.

Reference Links

MapPoint: http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint
Virtual Earth: http://virtualearth.msn.com/
MSN Maps & Direction: http://maps.msn.com/
Career at MapPoint: http://members.microsoft.com/careers (Search for
MapPoint)

Short Bio:

Tim McGrath is a lead program manager in the Microsoft MapPoint Platform
Team. He received a B.A. in Geography from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.A. in Geography from the University of Oregon. He
joined Microsoft in 1993 to work on the first Encarta World Atlas and have
been with the mapping group at Microsoft ever since. Prior to Microsoft, he
worked on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in ground-water modeling,
water quality, and water availability studies with the U.S. Geological
Survey, Water Resources Division for six years.

Pusheng Zhang is a software design engineer in the Microsoft MapPoint
Platform Team. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Minnesota in 2005 and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Science & Technology of China in 1999. His research interests include
spatial and temporal databases, data mining, and geographic information
science. He was a recipient of the 2004-2005 Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.


Bonnie Klein
Computer Science And Engineering Dept.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
4-192 EE/CS Building
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455
612-625-4002
612-625-0572 (fax)
www.cs.umn.edu




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