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Winner: Business Services.(Urban Science Applications Inc. receives American Association for Artificial Intelligence honor)(Brief Article)

Crain's Detroit Business, June, 2002

James Anderson, President Urban Science Applications Inc. Detroit James Anderson can be a sales director's best friend. Anderson, the president and founder of Detroit-based Urban Science Applications Inc., invented computer-mapping software that can show demographic data. That information can help automakers figure out where to position their dealers to generate the best sales.

Anderson got into computerized mapping while teaching at Wayne State University. One of his students, who worked for Cadillac, was assigned the task of locating the 37,000 luxury-car buyers in Chicago. Anderson helped create maps of registration data for Cadillac. But six months later, he realized that the data didn't necessarily answer the company's question of where to put...

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