News
December 16, 2016
New IMS Bulletin Editor Vlada Limic writes:
With this issue I officially take the baton from Anirban DasGupta, to whom I am very grateful for all the good advice during my training in the previous months. We are working to complement the following list of Contributing Editors: Anirban DasGupta, David…
Stephen Fienberg, University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University, died December 14 in Pittsburgh, USA. He was 74. An internationally acclaimed statistician, Fienberg was best known for developing and using statistical applications to influence science and public policy in many areas, including aspects of human rights,…
We regret to report that Charles Stein passed away peacefully in his sleep on November 24, aged 96. He was a professor of statistics at Stanford University. He is widely known for shrinkage estimators, Stein’s lemma, adaptive estimation, and Stein’s method. Among many honors, he was a member of the…
In October 2016, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected 391 members as Fellows of AAAS. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.…
Oregon State University College of Science Dean Sastry G. Pantula was honored for his outstanding and extensive service to the statistics profession with the 2016 Paul Minton Service Award from the Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS) at the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago. The award was established to…