GRASS releases

• 1982 Fort Hood Information System (FHIS) (Vax 11/780)
• 1983 Installation Geographic Information System (IGIS)  (SUN-1 Microcomputer)
• 1984 GRASS (SUN-1 and Masscomp)
• 1985 GRASS 1.0, GRASSnet established
• 1986 GRASS 1.1;  receives "Exemplary Systems in Government Award" from URISA
• 1987 GRASS 2.0; first issue of GRASSClippings, GRASS video narrated by William Shatner (Captain Kirk of Star Trek)
• 1988 GRASS 3.0; Army R&D Achievement Award (Webster, Goran, Shapiro, Westervelt)
• 1991 GRASS 4.0; released through Internet - popularity grows with universities, business and government agencies.
• 1993 GRASS 4.1; Federal Lab Consortium - Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
• 1995 GRASS 4.1.5 port to Linux: Yung-Tsung Kang, Michigan State University
• 1997 GRASS 4.2 Baylor University - The first "GRASS Research Group" takes control of GRASS Development from USACERL. 
  This first new release in 4 years adds numerous programs. Popularity increases with academic community.
• 1998 GRASS4.2.1 Markus Neteler, Germany
• 1999 GRASS5.0 Baylor University and Markus Neteler

• - started 1998 by Markus Neteler in Germany
• - more than 230 improvements and bugfixes
• - 50 new modules added
• - graphical user interface "TclTkGRASS" added (Jacques Bouchard)
• [- code cleanup from leftover files (more than 1000)]
• 1999 GRASS Development Team is formed - Markus Neteler and Bruce Byars coordinate an effort to bring all GRASS development and research into a single group of

        international scientists.

• 1999 GRASS 4.3 is released by the GRASS Development Team. The last release of non-floating point GRASS, based on the GRASS 4.2 and 4.2.1 code.

• 1999 GRASS 5.0 is released by the GRASS Development Team. The first major change in years, this version incorporates floating point calculations into GRASS.
• 2001 New GRASS Europe pages: http://grass.itc.it/

 Hosting agencies for the GRASS conferences:

• 1 (1985) Fort Hood, Texas
• 2 (1986) Fort Lewis, Washington
• 3 (1987) National Space Technology Lab, Stennis Space Center,
• 4 (1988) Champaign. USA CERL
• 5 (1989) Alexandria, Va.  Soil Conservation Service
• 6 (1990) UC Berkeley
• 7 (1992) Denver, National Park Service
• 8 (1993) Reston, Va.  USGS, SCS, FBI
• (1994) Paris, France (5TH European GRASS Users Meeting)
• 9th Annual GRASS GIS User's Conference and Exhibition (Sponsered by the Open GIS Foundation, Hosted by the Soil Conservation Service, March 13-18,'94 Reston Virginia)
• (2000) 1. Italian GRASS Meeting at Como, Italy
• (2001) 2. Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Trento, Italy
• (2001) 1. German GRASS Meeting at University of Mainz
• (2002) 3. Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Trieste, Italy