Welcome to the Lab for Computer Graphics retrospective site

The people, projects, publications, and events of the Lab gathered from original documents and images, individual recollections, and searching the Web.

TheLAB is a compendium of publications, early computer-generated maps, newsletters, and photographs from the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

The site is intended primarily as a resource for those associated with the Lab in preparation for a reunion planned for August of 2004 at the ESRI User Conference.

Our goal is to build a useful if not comprehensive collection of resources to stimulate further contacts among people associated with the Lab and to foster a wider awareness of theoretical geography, early computer mapping efforts, and the history of geographic information systems. Please contact us with any corrections, comments, or suggestions for improvement.

TheLAB is housed with permission on a server in Mann Library at Cornell University but has no official connection to Cornell University or Cornell University Library.

Lab Histories

Formal and informal histories of Lab activities, projects, and events.

Introduction to the Red Book, 1969
A brief Lab history by William Warntz (details)
Shakespeare Revisited or William and the Cathode Ray Tube
(details)
Introduction to the Red Book, 1970
An update to the 1969 Introduction listing activities in 1969-70. (details)
The Laboratory: An Historical Overview (1965-81) | PDF version
Written by Jackie Cohen and Geoff Dutton (details)
Graphic Intersections: The Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis' Influence on Geodat and MundoCart, 1979-1985
(details)

Pending Content

Lists of publications, events, photos, and other items we know of and want to include, and who has it

Allan Schmidt's personal collection
Harvard Computer Graphics Week Conference Announcements and the papers published as "The Harvard Library of Computer Graphics" (19 Vols. 255 case histories) (details)
Geoff Dutton's personal collection
Geoff has Redbooks, Context and Lablog issues, software manuals, proceedings, a few technical papers, 9-track tapes, films, and video (details)
Lorrie Irish's collection
Issues of CONTEXT, Lablogs, conference proceedings, plus a photo essay on Allan and the Lab (details)

Wish List

Items we know we want but have not yet located

Harvard Computer Graphics Week proceedings
We hope to be able to at least scan in tables of contents. (details)
Theoretical Geography papers
Nick Chrisman has a complete set of papers and plans to scan in a bibliography. (details)

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