IMS Bulletin
“Ranking Our Excellence,” or “Assessing Our Quality,” or Whatever…
One of the final responsibilities of each IMS President is to deliver a Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting. Peter Hall gave his talk on August 1 at JSM in Miami. The text is reproduced in full here.
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics held its 74th annual meeting at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami’s South Beach, from July 30 to August 4, 2011. The IMS highlights at JSM included the three Wald lectures by Greg Lawler, the Neyman lecture by Michael I. Jordan, and five Medallion lectures,…
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Bernard Harris passed away peacefully on January 28, 2011, at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, La., following complications from heart surgery.
Bernard was born on June 20, 1926, in New York City, the son of Samuel S. and Ella L. (Heyman) Harris. An academically precocious youngster, he graduated…