Dr. John P. Wilson is Professor of Spatial Sciences and Sociology in the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science with adjunct appointments as Professor in the School of Architecture and in the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Departments of Computer Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering. He founded and directs the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, its Geographic Information Science & Technology Graduate Programs, and its GIS Research Laboratory. He serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transactions in GIS (Wiley-Blackwell) and is a Visiting Professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.