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Thanks to a generous bequest by the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting, this year held at JSM in Miami, July 30 – August 4, 2011. This year the IMS Committee on…
IMS Members: you can now access JCGS (the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics) free as part of your membership. Login to the members’ area to read the latest issue.…
Terry Speed recently attended a meeting on interdisciplinary statistical science, which got him thinking, what does that mean?
In the back of the cab, Benoît Mandelbrot was at work. We had an appointment in Manhattan together, and the Polish-born, Franco-American mathematician did not like the geometry of the route the taxi driver was taking.
“Why don’t you go down Second Avenue?” he asked the driver. Cross on 25th,…