Tech & Data: Page 96

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    False alarms face fines in Fremont

    The Fremont, Calif., police department responds to more than 10,000 calls from home and business security systems each year. However, 98 percent of those

    By Peggy Caylor • Nov. 1, 1998
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    Building your GIS from the ground up

    Over the last 20 years, GIS has evolved from a luxury into an inevitability.

    By Rebecca Somers • April 1, 1998
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    Smart Cities Technology and Data

    Cities are increasingly looking to technology and data to address real-world issues from traffic safety to law enforcement.

    By Smart Cities Dive staff
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    Central Park: If you can maintain it there …

    With public and private funding, and a small army of maintenance personnel, New York's Central Park is sprucing up its image: restoring the landscapes

    By Beth Wade • April 1, 1998
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    Ghost in the machine: Year 2000 spooks nation’s computers

    The birth of the new millennium could sound the death knell for many of the nation's computers. Barring drastic measures, experts say, many computer-controlled

    By Jeff Green • May 1, 1997
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    Bridgeport battles back from the edge

    In 1991, Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, was reeling from the notoriety of an historic bankruptcy filing and a $20 million operating deficit.

    By Ganim Joseph • July 1, 1996
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    Innovative cable-stayed bridge opens in Texas

    The Fred Hartman Bridge across the Houston Ship Channel in Texas opened this past September. With its symmetrically balanced towers and glistening arrays of cables, the facility conveys much about the art of contemporary structural engineering.

    June 1, 1996
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    Texas goes digital with new driver’s license system

    For 25 years,texas drivers have been getting their licenses the old-fashioned way: going to the local licensing bureau, filling out forms, having their

    Jan. 1, 1996
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    Digital orthophotography: the foundation of GIS

    Municipal and county governments are taking advantage of technology that helps them to better plan for and address the growing needs of residents. GIS, a method of capturing recognizable geographic details of a land area from an aerial view and displaying them for various purposes, is no longer an exclusive tool of technologically adventurous or financially well-off communities.

    By David Nale • July 1, 1995
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    East St. Louis mayor gambles and wins

    Gordon Bush is a devout, church-going man who drops God's name in normal conversation the way some people do in anger. But that doesn't stop him from

    By Janet Ward • April 30, 1995
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    USCM’s Crabb takes sister cities helm

    Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were still in the frosty stages of the Cold War when Juanita Crabb got involved with Sister Cities International.

    By Janet Ward • Feb. 1, 1995