H. A. David (photo courtesy of Iowa State University) Herbert Aron David, Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, Ames, passed away on July 14, 2014, in Columbia, Maryland, USA. At Iowa State he served as Director and Head of the Statistical Laboratory and Department…

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Prominent Polish statistician Witold Klonecki, born on September 28, 1930, died on August 10, 2012 at the age of 82. Witold Klonecki received a master degree in mathematics from the University of Poznań in 1955 and a PhD degree from the University of Wrocław in 1963. His PhD dissertation, “On…

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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes: In addition to increasingly frequent requests to predict the future (see the last XL-Files), another sure sign of “professional aging” is being asked to talk about leadership. Just this past summer alone, I served on ICSA–KISS and IMS–NRC panels on leadership (while still sharpening my…

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WNAR (the Western North American Region of The International Biometric Society) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics combine each year to hold the IMS-sponsored WNAR/IMS meeting: this year it was in the lovely location of Honolulu, Hawaii. Wesley Johnson, professor of statistics at the University of California, Irvine, was one…

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Terry Speed returns to the topic of gender equity, and wonders how can we learn from the model of Male Champions of Change?

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