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Dr. Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of spatial@ucsb. His published books include Accuracy of Spatial Databases; Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications; Environmental Modeling with GIS; Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS; Interoperating Geographic Information Systems; Geographic Information Systems and Science; Uncertainty in Geographical Information; Foundations of Geographic Information Science; Spatially Integrated Social Science; GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling; and Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools. |
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Dr. Michael Kay is best known for his work on XML. Based in the UK, he is the editor of the XSLT specification and author of the definitive book on the language, and is also active on the standards group for XQuery and XML Schema. He is also the developer of the popular open-source Saxon software which implements these specifications. He gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1975 for work on database technology, and has retained links with the academic world, currently holding the position of Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading. |
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Kimon G. Onuma, FAIA, is recognized as a leader in building industry technologies and has a unique perspective that spans architecture, planning, programming and software development. Onuma was one of the first to use BIM on large scale US government facilities in 1994. His US Coast Guard (USCG) work for the Sector Planning System streamlined the design process of 35 sector Command Centers to six months and integrated data from various command centers and received a 2006 CETI award in the Small Scale Implementation category. In December 2006 he proved at an international Open Geospatial Consortium event that web feature services can link BIM and GIS. |
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