- Bruce Gittings
Born 1926 in
Auchenshuggle (Scotland ), Bruce Gittings is a information scientist at theUniversity of Edinburgh , a pioneer of Geographical Information on theInternet , creating several infrastructural technologies to support the distribution ofweb mapping and the author of a number of scientific articles. He is also a promoter of Scotland, with work including theGazetteer for Scotland . He loves cats, and breeds a rare sub-species known as Escotian Greens.Prior to moving into academia, Gittings had a successful career in the computer industry, working for companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corp in the USA, Ireland, Thailand and Libya. He has also been involved in local and national politics and was the inventor of the world's first cat-cam.
His family are successful glamour photographers in the SW USA.
In July 2007, he published [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/~bruce/wikipedia.ppt Some thoughts on Wikipedia] (64K PowerPoint presentation), in which he outlined his views on the weaknesses of Wikipedia, and its supposed effects on scholarship and the quality of knowledge in general.
He is the author of "Integrating information infrastructures with geographical information technology",- 1999 - London Philadelphia PA: Taylor & Francis, Held in 111 libraries according to [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42660374&referer=brief_results WorldCat]
References
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