Theme

•  Experimental Computational Cartography
•  Interface between the theoreticians and the computer
•  Design then implement algorithms and data structures
• efficiently
• on the largest (not toy sized!) datasets
• then
• observe results and
• suggest new research problems
• use general purpose data structures and algorithms,
• benefit from larger community effort
• like using Open Source Software instead of proprietary packages.
• Notable special-purpose failures: Lisp machines, floating point processors, database engines, special graphics engines, and most parallel machines.