Name: David Bennett
Position: Associate Professor, The University of Iowa
Degree: Ph.D.
Year Graduated: 2004
Area of specialization: GIScience
Current Position: After seven years of academic experience at other insitutions, I returned to the Department of Geography at The University of Iowa. One of the main criterion in my decision to return, and to stay, is that this department remains one of a handful of places within the U.S. where truely creative, state-of-the-science geographic information science research (a.k.a. geoinformatics) is being done. Many places teach applied GIS (which is done here too, and done well), but few departments are looking into the future of geoinformatics and searching for what is coming next. This view places increased importance on the concepts and theories that drive the design and use of geoinformatics and and on emerging trends in informatics more generally; trends like ubiquitous computing, intelligent agent-based modeling, the reprentational of spatio-temporal phenomena, and grid computing. These trends are likely to have a profound affect on the profession that many of our students are preparing themselves to enter, and our goal here at Iowa is to provide these students with the tools they need to succeed through out a career, not just a first job.
For more detail on what I have been up to since I graduate from the Department of Geography at The University of Iowa, please see the following webpages:
