Bibliographic record
Abstract
The passing of Alex Hittel on May 17, 2017, in Calgary is an immense loss to the geomatcs community.Alex was a pioneer and visionary who made major contributions to the modernization of the profession through the introduction of satellite positioning and inertial surveying, in addition to having played an important role in the creation of the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary in the late 1970s.Alex was born in Fox Valley, Saskatchewan.His birth certificate records his birth on Section 13, Township 19, Range 26, West of 3 (Near near Fox Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada), a description that augured well for a future land surveyor.Following high school, Alex worked for a few years in the federal government's Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA).During that time, he enrolled in the surveying and drafting program at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now SAIT Polytechnic), Calgary, graduating in 1953.He then joined Shell Canada Limited, where he held numerous posi tions over a period of 30 years, including head of the Sheltech Canada Division during the latter years.Alex was self-taught.Through sheer motivation and persistence, he successfully studied while fully employed to become ALS (1965) and DLS (1972).(1981).Alex was granted his PEng in1981 by APEGA under the Senior and Distinguished Category for his leadership in building advanced geomatics engineering products and systems.His lifetime involvement in, and promotion of, the profession are well-known. He served the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association (ALSA) in numerous
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.072 | 0.014 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".