IMS Bulletin
“A giant in the field of statistics” passes away
Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox has passed away at the age of 97. Cox, who was described on the awarding of the inaugural International Prize in Statistics as “a giant in the field of statistics,” made many contributions including introducing…
IMS and ASA Fellow Cynthia Rudin has won the 2022 Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). This award, the most prestigious in the field of artificial intelligence, is comparable to the Nobel Prize and the…
Each year, the Awards Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, recommends a select group of recipients to receive IEEE’s most prestigious honors. These are the men and women whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession.…
The International Prize in Statistics — one of the highest honors in statistics — is awarded every two years to an individual or team “for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology, and human welfare.” This prestigious award is stewarded by the five major statistical organizations working cooperatively to…
The Asia-Pacific Seminar in Probability and Statistics is a monthly online seminar, broadcast on a mid-month Wednesday via Zoom. The seminar series was created as a permanent forum for good research in the field, intended “to counterbalance the restrictions imposed on us by the pandemic and to still promote scientific…