David Dunson, Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University, writes: What is the core of data science? To address this, I think it is necessary to first touch on the question of what is data science? Certainly there is not one agreed upon definition of what data…

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On June 11–12, 2015, the IMS-Microsoft Research workshop Foundations of Data Science brought together parallel communities of statisticians and machine learning researchers to discuss various problems that have both statistical and computational aspects. The organizers Jennifer Chayes from Microsoft Research, former IMS president Bin Yu from UC Berkeley Statistics Department,…

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This a final call for high quality invited session proposals sponsored by the IMS for the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) to be held July 30 – August 4, 2016 in Chicago. Keep in mind that the selection of invited session proposals is a competitive process due to the limited…

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We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 IMS Council elections. The President-Elect is Jon Wellner. The new Council members are, in alphabetical order: Andreas Buja, Gerda Claeskens, Nancy Heckman, Kavita Ramanan and Ming Yuan. The new Council members and President-Elect will serve IMS for three years, starting…

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Featuring news about Sharon-Lise Normand, Gunnar Kulldorff, Ramanathan Gnanadesikan, Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Xuming He, Hao Zhang

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