Professor
      Michael F. Goodchild
University of California, Santa Barbara
      Geographer; Educator
      Area
                                Social and Behavioral Sciences
                            Specialty
                                Sociology, Demography, and Geography
                            Elected
                                    2006
                    Emeritus Professor of Geography. Produced original research on the use of digital geographic information in spatial and environmental analysis and modeling and its visualization in cartography; on the theory of massive repositories of geographic information; on the question of accuracy and uncertainty in geographic data; and on the design of databases.
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