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Apple, Google and the Smartphone Mapping Apps Race: Prof Hanan Samet

12 April 2013

Register your place at the next lecture of the Grand Challenge Series presented by the Institute for Future Environments.

The way we use our smartphones and interact with the virtual environment is evolving rapidly and unpredictably, as Apple, Google and their competitors continuously develop new operating systems and apps. Prof Hanan Samet from the University of Maryland will explore smartphone trends and rivalries, focusing in particular on the latest developments in mapping apps and application program interfaces (APIs).

Hanan Samet is a Professor of Computer Science from the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. Over the past four decades he has been a pioneering researcher in several areas of computer science. He currently leads a number of research projects on the use of hierarchical data structures for database applications involving multimedia data, such as spatial and image databases. Prof Samet is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

Date
12 April 2013
Time
3:30pm
Location
Level 4, P Block, Gardens Point campus
Room
Kindler Theatre
Cost
Free
Organisation
Institute for Future Environments
Info
Amanda Dunne
Phone
3138 9498
Email
amanda.dunne@qut.edu.au
URL
http://www.qut.edu.au/institute-for-future-environments

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