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May 17, 2012
Thomas Cover, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University, died on March 26, aged 73, following a short illness.
Cover arrived at Stanford from MIT as a fresh PhD student in the fall of 1960, and spent almost his entire career there, holding a joint position…
Brian Rider is chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, to be held from July 29 to August 2, 2013, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. If you are thinking of attending the meeting, Brian advises you to book your accommodation as…
Rick Durrett writes:
Picture this: it was the ides of March, a sunny day in Durham, the day before the most frequent Google search from the Duke campus was “Where is Lehigh University?” I was having lunch with a job candidate in computer science and explaining the difficulties of proving…
The IMS Treasurer, Jean Opsomer, reports on IMS membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2011, and reviews the fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011) financial statements. You can read the report in the June/July 2012 issue, or download the PDF separately here.…
Thanks to a generous bequest from the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting (this year, at the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9–14). This…