Rod Ellis is winner of the BAAL Book Prize in 1985 for the best book published in applied linguistics. Formerly Professor and Head of Department in the School of Language Studies, Ealing College of Higher Education.
John P. Wilson is Professor of Geography and Director of the GIS Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.A. Stewart Fotheringham is Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.They are both editors of the journal Transactions in GIS, also published by Blackwell.