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Article: Google Earth creator sees many potential benefits
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- September 19, 2007
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By Julie K. Buzbee
SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
Hundreds of years ago, explorers sailed around the Earth to prove
it was round.
Modern-day explorer Brian McClendon created Google Earth, a
virtual 3D globe for the rest of the world to sail around by using
their computers.
McClendon, a 1986 engineering graduate of The University of
Kansas, will be back on campus this week when he joins Alexander
Murphy, former vice president of the American Geographical Society,
and Jerry Dobson, professor of geography at The University of
Kansas, to examine conflict from geographical perspectives. The
program will spotlight how technology and geography are changing the
way countries wage war and people make ...