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ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY SOFTWARE: A GROWING DATA MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE
Location: Carnegie Mellon West, Building 23, Moffett Field, CA 94035
Start Date/Time: 04.9.08, 6:30 PM
Bay Area based Locus Technologies is in large part responsible for the creation of an emerging technical sector—the storage and management of environmental industry data. Even conservative estimates project rapid growth in the environmental information arena, with an increasing need for software tools to store, manage and manipulate data.
Such data includes the massive amount of complex information collected during environmental cleanup projects, air emissions, greenhouse gasses monitoring, and other activities, which in past practice was stored in various distributed locations from spreadsheets to PDAs to field notebooks. Locus stores environmental industry data in an online central database, making it accessible via the Web and available for analysis, visualization, and reporting, leveraging Web 2.0 technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture, mashups, and vertical searches.
About Dr. Duplancic
 Carnegie Melon alumnus Dr. Neno Duplancic is the founder and CEO of Locus Technologies where he has pioneered the application of an Internet based on-demand computing model for data management in the environmental industry.
Dr. Duplanic is the author of more than 30 technical papers on the use of technologies in the environmental industry. As a research associate at Carnegie Mellon in the early eighties, he developed the first prototype system for environmental and geological data management and display using microcomputers. This early work led to the development of numerous database management systems at some of the nation’s largest contaminated sites, and ultimately to the formation of Locus Technologies in 1997.
Dr. Duplancic earned a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Split, Croatia. He attended Stanford University’s Advance Project Management program, and has taught classes at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin.
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General Admission: Free
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