recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in GIS by ESRI. Taylor and Francis of London recently published a map projection book, co-authored with Q. Yang of China and the late John P. Snyder. More recent interests related to ideas in computational geography including the analysis of geographical vector fields and the development of migration and of global trade models. Tobler was also concerned with representing flow (due to its involvement with movement as a mechanism of geographic change). In 2003, Tobler released a freeware, Microsoft Windows-based version of his flow representation software Flow Mapper. In 2005, an ESRI ArcGIS version of the software, inspired by Tobler, was developed by Alan Glennon and Michael Goodchild at UCSB. Both versions are available from the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (http://vgi.spatial.ucsb.edu/clearinghouse/FlowMapper/) Honors Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States; Honorary Fellow, American Geographical Society; Osborn Maitland Miller Medal, American Geographical Society 1989; Meritorious Contributor Medallion, Association of American Geographers, 1971; Andrew McNally Award, 1986; ESRI Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999. AAG Microcomputer Specialty Award, 1993. GIS Hall of Fame Inductee, URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association), 2016. Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi Tobler served on the National Research Council the Board on Earth Sciences. He has been on the editorial board of several journals, including The American Cartographer, Journal of Regional Science, Geographical Analysis, and the International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. He was a charter member of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, a council member of the Regional Science Association, member and chairman of the Mathematical Social Science Board, and served as the United States delegate to the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Data Processing and Sensing. Until his retirement, he was a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. See also Tobler's first law of geography Tobler's second law of geography Tobler's hiking function Tobler hyperelliptical projection References General W. Tobler, (2002) “Ma Vie: Growing Up in America and Europe”, in Geographical Voices, W. Pitts and P. Gould, eds., University of Syracuse Press; Syracuse; pages 292–322. In French: (2000) “Ma Vie: Grandir en Amérique et en Europe”, dans Mémoires de Géographes, P. Gould et A. Bailly, eds., Anthropos, Paris, 209–242. Specific External links Waldo R. Tobler at UCSB CSISS/Flow Mapper Software UCSB Geography Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences American geographers Swiss geographers 1930 births