Random conversation in Matt McGrath’s office a couple years ago after reading Nick Chrisman’s book we all knew

Charlie Miller (MIT) develops COGO, the first computer program for topographical surveying

• Charlie Miller (MIT) develops COGO, the first computer program for topographical surveying

• Early forerunner of CAD programs
• Understood traditional civil engineering terms such as "locate," "inverse," "ramp" and "alignment“
• Made computers more accessible to civil engineers for surveying problems

Waldo Tobler (Michigan) begins work on the first computer program for cartogram production

• Waldo Tobler (Michigan) begins work on the first computer program for cartogram production

• The “pseudo cartograms” were created by expanding or compressing the lat/long grid until the minimum root mean squared error of unit densities resulted
• All following cartogram generation algorithms are considered decendants of Tobler’s method