This biosketch was updated in 2015.
Nicholas Chrisman is currently Editor of the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science, based in Bellingham, Washington. For 2013-2014, he was Professor of Geospatial Science and Discipline Head at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. From 2005 to 2012, he was Professor of Geomatics Sciences at the Université Laval, Canada with his principal assignment as Scientific Director of the GEOIDE Network. His research has concentrated on time in GIS, data quality testing and the social and institutional aspects of Geographic Information Systems. From 1987-2004 he was Professor of Geography at University of Washington. From 1982-87 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1972-82 he was a programmer at the Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics. He participated in the design of prototype GIS software. His PhD is from the University of Bristol (UK) for research on error and statistics applied to categorical maps.
For many decades, his writing has tried to connect the technical details of GIS to larger issues of philosophy and culture.