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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:04:58 -0400
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Subject: Press release: ALLAN DOYLE RECEIVES GARDELS AWARD
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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Lance McKee, Vice President, Corporate Communications
Open GIS Consortium, Inc., Wayland, MA 01778
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ALLAN DOYLE RECEIVES GARDELS AWARD
At a recent bimonthly meeting of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Allan
Doyle of International Interfaces, Inc. (Needham, MA) received OGC's second
annual Kenneth G. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is
awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to
interoperable geoprocessing.
Allan Doyle is currently President of International Interfaces, Inc., a
firm dedicated to developing, testing, and applying interoperable
interfaces and communications protocols for the Internet. Mr. Doyle
represents International Interfaces in the Open GIS Consortium, where he
has been active since its inception in 1994. He chairs the WWW Mapping
Special Interest Group and serves as a representative to the Open GIS
Consortium Management committee. He is the editor of the Open GIS
Consortium's Web Map Server Interface Specification and is credited with
having created the initial vision of Web-based mapping within the OGC. Mr.
Doyle serves as the System Architect for the Open GIS Web Mapping Testbed
and plays a key technical role in other Open GIS initiatives. He is
recognized as a leader in the field of internet-based, distributed
geographic mapping technology. Mr. Doyle is also a member of the NASA
Global Observation of Forest Cover Testbed team.
Previously, Mr. Doyle was a Division Scientist in the Distributed
Applications Development Group at BBN Technologies where he served as a
senior systems architect and technical business development leader. Under
Mr. Doyle's leadership, his group produced several new distributed mapping
technologies and demonstrations, culminating in the release of OpenMap(TM),
a programmer's toolkit for map-based systems, as open source software. Mr.
Doyle's publications credits span topics ranging from distributed spatial
data, system integration, real-time control, and data analysis to the
development of vision in infants and computer-based control of laboratory
equipment. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mr. Doyle provided most of the technical direction and corporate resources
for the OGC/FGDC interoperability demonstration at GIS/LIS in October,
1997, OGC's first public demonstration of OpenGIS capabilities. In OGC, Mr.
Doyle has consistently provided leadership: authoring documents, steering
the WWW Mapping SIG and the Web Mapping Testbed in a sound technical
direction, rallying support for the SIG and the Testbed inside and outside
the consortium, and gracefully moderating technical discussions. He
recently was unanimously re-elected as one of the two TC reps to the MC,
after stepping out from that role when he became GTE/BBN's rep to the MC.
>From the beginning, Allan has been much more than a technical contributor.
His initiative and even-tempered, friendly, principled approach have
contributed substantially to the standard of discourse in the OGC
community.
OGC is an international, not-for-profit organization founded in 1994.
OGC's 220 industry, government, and academic member organizations
participate in a consensus process to integrate geoprocessing into the
world's information infrastructures.
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Lance McKee
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Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
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Tel. 508-655-5858
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