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W. Jackson “Jack” Hall, PhD, Fellow of the IMS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester, died peacefully on October 14, 2012, at age 82. In the course of his long and highly distinguished career, Jack made deep…
Kesar Singh, a beloved colleague, friend, teacher and extraordinary researcher, left us forever, and far too soon, on Wednesday May 16, 2012.
Kesar had had a massive heart attack the night before and was admitted to Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where heart surgery was unable to…
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…
Franklin Arno Graybill, Professor Emeritus and founding Chair of the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University, died Friday, February 17, 2012 at the age of 90. He is survived by his wife Jeanne, his children Dan and Kathy, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Frank was born to Arno and…
Johannes H.B. Kemperman’s research and teaching career of 50 years included ten years at Purdue, 25 years at the University of Rochester, and ten years at Rutgers. During this time he produced three major books, over 100 publications, and 23 PhD students. He was a Fellow of IMS and of…