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Noel Cressie is Professor of Statistics, Distinguished
Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Director of
the Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics at
The Ohio State University. His research interests are in the
statistical modeling and analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal
data. He is the author of around 250 refereed articles and of
three books, the most recent being "Statistics for Spatio-Temporal
Data" by Noel Cressie and Christopher K. Wikle, published in 2011
by Wiley. Dr. Cressie is a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Among
other awards, in 2009 he received the international Fisher Award
and Lectureship.
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Jack Dongarra holds an appointment at the University of
Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of
Manchester. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear
algebra, parallel computing, use of advanced-computer
architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel
computers. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for
his contributions in the application of high performance computers
using innovative approaches; in 2008 he was the recipient of the
first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing; in 2010 he
was the first recipient of the SIAM Special Interest Group on
Supercomputing's award for Career Achievement; and in 2011 he was
the recipient of the IEEE IPDPS 2011 Charles Babbage Award. He is
a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering.
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Helen Couclelis is Professor
of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With
a background in architecture, civil engineering, and urban and
regional modeling and planning, she began her career as a
professional in Greece. At UCSB she served as Associate Director
of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
(NCGIA) and as member of the executive committee of the Center for
Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). Her publications
range from spatial cognition to process modeling, and she is known
for pioneering cellular automata models in geography. Her recent
research is increasingly on geographic information ontologies with
an emphasis on temporal and task-centered representation. She was
awarded an honorary doctorate from Utrecht University for her work
that bridges disciplines and perspectives.
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Yee Leung is Professor of Geography and Resource Management
at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also concurrently
the Associate Director of the Institute of Environment, Energy and
Sustainability, the Associate Academic Director of the Institute
of Space and Earth Information Science at The Chinese University
of Hong Kong. He is now Chair of The Commission on Modeling
Geographical Systems, International Geographical Union, and Chair
of The Commission on Quantitative and Computational Geography of
The Chinese Geographical Society.
Professor Leung has done pioneer and influential research in
imprecision/uncertainty analysis in geography and GIS, intelligent
spatial decision support systems, geocomputation (particularly on
fuzzy set, rough set, spatial statistics, fractal analysis, neural
networks and genetic algorithms), and spatial knowledge discovery
and data mining. His landmark books are: Spatial Analysis and
Planning under Imprecision (Elsevier, 1988); Intelligent Spatial
Decision Support Systems (Springer-Verlag, 1997), and Knowledge
Discovery in Spatial Data (Springer-Verlag, 2010).
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Douglas Richardson is the Executive Director of the Association of American
Geographers (AAG). During the past ten years, he led a highly successful
organizational renewal of the AAG and has built very strong academic, research,
publishing, and financial foundations for the organization's future.
Prior to joining the AAG, Dr. Richardson founded and for 18 years was the
president of GeoResearch, Inc., a private-sector scientific research company
specializing in geographic research and technology, including GIS, spatial
modeling, and GPS. GeoResearch developed and patented the world's first
real-time interactive GPS/GIS mapping and data collection technology, leading to
pervasive changes in the ways in which geographic information is now collected,
mapped, integrated, and used within geography, as well as in society at large.
Richardson holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD
in Geography from Michigan State University. His current research interests
focus on geography's evolution as an international discipline and its future
trajectories in the university and in society.
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Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor East Asian Languages and
Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China's cultural
elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is
the author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung
China, Neo-Confucianism in History, coauthor of Sung Dynasty Uses of the
I-ching, co-editor of Ways with Words, and various journal articles in Chinese,
Japanese, and English. He led Harvard's university-wide effort to establish
support for geospatial analysis in teaching and research; in 2005 he was named
the first director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. He also directs the
China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between
Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create a GIS for 2000 years of
Chinese history. In a collaboration between Harvard, Academia Sinica, and Peking
University he directs the China Biographical Database project, an online
relational database currently of 112,000 historical figures that is being
expanded to cover the Chinese political elite over the last 2000 years.
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