Keynote Addresses

Monday, February 22

8:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Michael F. Goodchild, Professor of Geography and Director of spatial@ucsb, University of California, Santa Barbara

Topic: GIS as a Sandbox: The Challenge of Spatio-temporal Analysis and Modeling

Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of spatial@ucsb. He received his BA degree from Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in geography from McMaster University in 1969. He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, and member of the american Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and in 2007 he received the Prix Vautrin Lud. He was editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990 and editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of american Geographers from 2000 to 2006. He serves on the editorial boards of ten other journals and book series, and has published over 15 books and 400 articles. His current research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data.

J. Ronald Eastman, Professor of Geography and Director, Clark Labs and the IDRISI Project, Clark University

Topic: GeoTemporal Analysis and Earth System Science

J. Ronald Eastman is Professor of Geography in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. He is also the Director of Clark Labs – a research unit focused on geographic/earth system information technology to address the needs of effective decision making for social and environmental security and sustainable development. Clark Labs is best known for its development and support of the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software system and the Land Change Modeler, also available as an extension to ArcGIS. Dr. Eastman’s research is strongly focused on data mining over space and time.

Tuesday, February 23

Vassilis J. Tsotras, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside

Topic: Trajectories are Here to Stay

Vassilis J. Tsotras is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Riverside. He received his Diploma (1985) from the National Technical University of Athens and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1991). His research interests include temporal and spatio-temporal databases, semi-structured data management and data dissemination. He received the NSF Research Initiation Award (1991) and the Teaching Excellence Award from the Bourns College of Engineering (1999). He serves as the General Co-Chair for the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010). He is co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems and serves/ed on the editorial board of the Very Large Databases Journal and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Prof. Tsotras’ research has been supported by various grants from NSF, the Department of Defense and the industry.