Dr. Arthur Getis is a distinguished Professor of Geography Emeritus at San Diego State University. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1961. He had been president of several academic societies including the University Consortium for Geographical Information Sciences and Western Regional Science Association. He has been published widely, including many articles with J. Keith Ord, on the creation and development of local statistics, and ebooks with Barry Boots on spatial pattern analysis.
He recently received the Founder’s Medal of the Regional Science Association International and the Paelinck Award for his methodological writings.