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Steve Fienberg: “Statistics is what I do!”
Photo: Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen (Steve) E. Fienberg was the “superman of statistics” (L. Wasserman), “a hero of the statistics profession” (M. Straf), “the ultimate public statistician” (A. Carriquiry, E. Lander), and “the best kind of Bayesian” (E. George). His life and…
Ulf Grenander, pictured at home belatedly receiving an award from
Comp. Vis. and Pattern Recognition. Photo kindly supplied by David Mumford
Ulf Grenander was born in 1923 in Vastervik, Sweden, a small coastal town on the Baltic Sea. His degrees were from Uppsala University (B.A., 1946; Licentiate of Philosophy,…
Lajos Takács was born on 21 August 1924 in Maglód, a small town 16 miles from Budapest in Hungary. He showed an early aptitude for mathematics, and an interest in numbers. He attended secondary school in Budapest. In 1943 he entered the Technical University of Budapest, and came second in…
Stanford Professor Emeritus Theodore W. “Ted” Anderson, a giant in mathematical statistics and econometrics, and a “prophet” of the era of big data, died of heart failure on September 17. He was 98.
Anderson, who retired from teaching in 1988, continued his work and close association with Stanford colleagues. Until…
Professor Emanuel Parzen, a long time faculty member in the Statistics Department at Texas A&M University, and expert in signal detection theory and time series analysis, died on Saturday, February 6, 2016, in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 86.
Parzen, who was born on April 21, 1929, in New York…