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Professor and Chair
Dr. Miller's CV
Office: Orson Spencer Hall, Room 270F
Phone: (801) 585-3972
Fax: (801) 581-8219


Email: harvey.miller@geog.utah.edu

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  Education

 
Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 1991
M.A., Geography, Kent State University, 1987
B.A. (Honors), Geography, Kent State University, 1985
  Research and Teaching Interests

 
Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T), time geography and activity theory, geographic information science and spatial analysis
  Other Professional Activities

 
  • Co-Chair, Committee on Spatial Data and Information Science (ABJ60), Transportation Research Board , U.S. National Academies, 2005-2011.
  • Committee on Spatial Data and Information Science (ABJ60), Transportation Research Board , U.S. National Academies, 2003-2005.
  • Committee on Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95), Transportation Research Board , U.S. National Academies, 2008-2011.
  • North American Editor, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) (2000 - 2004)
  • Board member, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2000-2003)
  • Councilor at large, North American Regional Science Council (2000-2003)
  • Identifying Data Needs for Place-based Decision Making, policy committee, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, National Research Council, U.S. National Academies (2000-2001)
  • Spatial Information Infrastructure for Multi-Modal Transportation Systems, policy committee, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, U.S. National Academies (2001 – 2003)
  • Editorial boards: Geographical Analysis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Journal of Transport and Land Use,Journal of Regional Science, Transportation, URISA Journal
  •   Courses Taught

     
    GEOGR 1500 - The Geography of Cyberspace
    GEOGR 5150/6150 - Spatial Database Design for GIS
    GEOGR 6010 - Geocomputation
    GEOGR 6960 - Seminar in Geographic Problems
      Recent Publications

     
    Digital versions of some papers are available at personal website
    Books
    Harvey J. Miller and Jiawei Han (eds.) (2009), Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery , second edition, Taylor and Francis.
    Harvey J. Miller (ed.) (2007) Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access, Berlin: Springer.
    Journal Articles and Book Chapters
    Bart Kuijpers, Harvey J. Miller, Tijs Neutens and Walied Othman (in press), "Anchor uncertainty and space-time prisms on road networks," International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
    Harvey J. Miller (in press), "The data avalanche is here. Shouldn't we be digging?" Journal of Regional Science (50th anniversary issue).
    Tijs Neutens, Tim Schwanen and Harvey J. Miller (in press) “Dealing with timing and synchronization in opportunities for joint activity participation,” Geographical Analysis.
    Scott A. Bridwell and Harvey J. Miller (in press) “Location-based services,” in L. Liu and M. Tamer Özsu (eds.) Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer.
    Harvey J. Miller (2009) “Geocomputation,” in A. S. Fotheringham and P.A. Rogerson (eds.) Handbook of Spatial Analysis, Sage Publications, 397-418.
    Harvey J. Miller and Scott A. Bridwell (2009) “A field-based theory for time geography,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99, 49-75.
    Harvey J. Miller (2009) "Transport 2.0: Meeting grand transportation challenges with geographic information science," ArcNews, Winter 2008/2009.
    Harvey J. Miller (2008) “Time geography,” in S. Shekhar and H. Xiong (eds.) Encyclopedia of GIS, Springer, 1151-1156.
    Harvey J. Miller (2007) "Place-based and people-based geographic information science," Geography Compass, 1, 503-535.
    Nobbir Ahmed and Harvey J. Miller (2007), “Time-space transformations of geographic space for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing transportation systems,” Journal of Transport Geography, 15, 2-17.
      Honors and Awards

     
    2009. Edward L. Ullman Award for Significant Contributions to Transportation Geography, Association of American Geographers.
    2004. Superior Research Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Utah.
    1997. Geoffrey J. D. Hewings Award, North American Regional Science Council.
    1996. Springer-Verlag Award, Western Regional Science Association.
    1996. ESRI Award, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (with J. Lowry and G. Hepner).
    1994. Superior Research Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Utah.
      Other interests

     
    Outdoor adventure
    backpacking, bicycling, climbing, hiking, skiing
    Indoor adventure
    quality books, film and televison
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