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Spatial Computing

Spatial Computing refers to "utilizing spatial principles to optimize distributed computing for enabling science discoveries and application operations".

The idea of spatial computing can be traced back when geographically dispersed computers are coordinated to accomplish a task when DARPA started the computer networks and the Internet.

Spatial computing as a computing concept originated from GIScience domain when Peking University and George Mason University established a joint center for intelligent spatial computing in 2005/6.

Microsoft and MIT researchers proposed similar concept in 2007.

Europe community also established a spatial computing community around 2007.

The research attracts the computer science community attention in ACMGIS and others around 2010s.

The concept is formally defined by Yang et al (2011) and they further expanded to spatial cloud computing and spatiotemporal computing.