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ICSC 2008

ICSC 2008

Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Santa Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008
Michael F Goodchild

Director of Spatial Studies,
Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara

At UCSB, Dr. Goodchild is Chair of the Executive Committee, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA); Associate Director of the Alexandria Digital Library Project; and Director of NCGIA's Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. Formerly, he was Director of NCGIA, Chair of the National Research Council's Mapping Science Committee, and a member of NRC's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Goodchild holds a B.A. degree from Cambridge University in Physics, a Ph.D. in Geography from McMaster University, and honorary doctorates from Laval University and Keele University.

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