Origins of the Technology

• Ideas developed over last 10 years

• Early methods used brute force search

  • Geographical Analysis Machine (1987)
  • Geographical Correlates Exploration Machine (1990)
  • Geographical Explanations Machine (1997)

• Later versions seek to emulate the brute force results in a fraction of the time

  • STAC (1992)
  • MAPEX (1995)
  • MAPEX-GEM (1998)

• User interface and results are common to all

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