abstract:Jack Dangermond is an American business executive and environmental scientist. In 1969 , he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company.
All this geographic mania amuses the de facto father of the mapping field: JackDangermond, founder and president of Environmental Systems Research Institute, the 37-year-old firm that is the Microsoft of mapping.
