The website of the MIT Geospatial Data Center was one of five nominees in the 2011 Webby Awards in the Schools/Universities category. Professor John Williams is director of the center, which, according to the website, is the “uniting force of MIT’s Auto-ID labs, the Geonumerics Group, the Center for Grid Computing, and the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory,” striving to “enhance the areas of public service, environmental conservation, and crisis relief and prevention efforts with the next-generation geospatial platform.” The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.