From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Contributing Editor David Hand has been re-reading John Tukey’s “The Future of Data Analysis”:
Most readers will be familiar with the name John Tukey. He is renowned for developing the Fast Fourier Transform and the box plot, and for coining the term “bit” as used in computer science as well…
A cautionary tale from our contributing editor, Daniela Witten:
During my first few years as faculty, I traveled far and wide to give invited talks at department seminars and conferences. At the beginning, the travel was fun, and helpful for my career as I built out my professional network. But…
C. R. Rao, a giant in statistical theory who blazed the field over an 80-year research career died on August 22, 2023, two weeks short of his 103rd birthday.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born in Karnataka, India, on September 10, 1920. Rao was known to be a very good student…
In the September 2022 Bulletin issue, we introduced a new “Invitation to Research” section, kicked off by Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, Senior Statistician at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, USA. Alex invited members to collaborate on Quantitative Perturbation Theory for Stochastic Processes, which since created…
Linbo Wang and Dehan Kong report:
The 23rd Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (NRC) convened at the University of Toronto Scarborough from August 2–5, 2023: see https://sites.google.com/site/linbowangpku/nrc-2023. The conference was attended by 69 emerging researchers and 13 senior speakers and panelists, hailing from the United States,…