Abhijeet Chavan
Abhijeet Chavan is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of Planetizen.
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Abhijeet Chavan is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of Planetizen and the executive producer of Planetizen Courses. He was also the chief technology officer of Urban Insight, Inc., the technology consulting firm that operates Planetizen. Abhijeet Chavan has over 20 years of technology consulting experience working with government, higher education, legal services, and non-profit clients. Abhijeet is the founder of OpenAdvocate and the creator of DLAW web platform, WriteClearly plain-language authoring tool and ReadClearly legal web glossaries. Abhijeet was named to the Fastcase 50 list of global legal innovators in 2017.
Abhijeet previously coordinated geographic information (GIS), software development, and data projects for the Imaging Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also served as the information technology coordinator for the East St. Louis Action Research Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with residents and community groups in severely distressed urban areas.Abhijeet received his Master of Architecture (M. Arch) and Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A) degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
'Computer of The Future' Photo Is A Hoax
According to <a href="http://www.snopes.com/">Urban Legends References Pages</a>, the widely circulated 1954 photograph of what a home computer in 2004 would look like is an Internet hoax. The website provides <a href="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp">details</a>: <br /> <blockquote><br /> Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in the early 1950s contemplated a "home computer" might look like (based on the technology of the day), it isn't, as the accompanying text claims, a RAND Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype "home computer." The picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found on U.S. Navy web site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to the left-hand side of the photo).</blockquote>
Udall Urges Bush To Combat Global Warming
Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall urges Bush to set up a NATO-like organization to combat global warming.
Innovative Affordable Architecture
With an architectural competition, the City of Montreal challenged the construction industry to design innovative, affordable residential solutions.
'Listening To The City'
A graduate course makes students put aside preconceptions and discover the realities of local urban environments.
Nation's 'Most Ambitious' Integrated Transit Solution
Denver plans to make financing available to developers of low- and moderate-income rental housing near transit stations.