

Kurland GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook, 10.3 Edition By Wilpen L. He and his colleague, Kristen Kurland, have written as series of geographic information systems textbooks for ESRI Press.1 GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook, 10.3 Edition By Wilpen L. Wil taught database, geographic information systems, and project courses. Sloan Foundation, and other organizations. He has received funding from the National Institute of Justice, Centers for Disease Control, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Geographical Analysis, The International Journal of Forecasting, Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, MIS Quarterly, and other leading journals. His current research includes developing leading indicator forecast models for law enforcement, application of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) framework to time series analysis and forecasting, and information systems for support of policy and planning in organizations. Wil's research interests include geographic information systems, predictive models, and management science models applied to public sector problems. He was recipient of the Best Paper Award from the American Information Systems Society in 2001. He is past editor of the International Journal of Forecasting. In 2005, Wil was inducted as a Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters. In 2011, Wil won the Martcia Wade Teaching Award in the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University for the second time.

He is a member of the Association of Public Policy and Management and the International Institute of Forecasters. from the School of Urban and Public Affairs, the Heinz College's predecessor, and obtained his master and bachelor degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the Heinz College faculty as professor, he was associate professor at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University. For ten years, until becoming emeritus, he served as the faculty chair of the Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) program and was chair of the Faculty Oversight Committee for the MSPPM program in Washington, D.C. Wil Gorr joined the Heinz College faculty in 1985. Professor of Public Policy and Information Systems, Emeritus
