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September 1, 2018
Nicholas Horton (Amherst College) was a co-author of the recent National Academies consensus study report that is available for free download from https://nas.edu/envisioningds. He writes:
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of data science, revolutionizing industry and science. The NSF-funded National Academies consensus report entitled Undergraduate Data Science: …
Radu V. Craiu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He writes:
These are interesting times for statistical science departments throughout the world. The demand for a statistician’s expertise is at an all-time high across a multitude of sectors: tech, finance, health…
Anirban DasGupta, Purdue University, writes:
Thriyambakam Krishnan, former Dean of Academic Studies and Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, passed away in Chennai, India on July 4; he was 81. Jointly with G.J. McLachlan he authored the masterly and popular Wiley text on the EM algorithm and its applications. Dr.…
Shane Henderson (Cornell University) is Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Systems, an IMS-affiliated journal. He writes:
After more than six years being published through a cooperative agreement between the IMS and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Applied Probability Society (APS), Stochastic Systems has become an INFORMS journal.…
Alison Etheridge gave this Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting in Vilnius in July 2018.
So, how was I going to write a Presidential address? The best way to start seemed to be to see what my predecessors had said, and so I took to the internet. There…