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Theophilos N. Cacoullos was born April 5, 1932, in the village of Pachna in Limassol district, Cyprus. After his secondary education in Limassol (valedictorian, 1950), he studied mathematics at the University of Athens and earned his diploma (BSc) in 1954. Then, Cacoullos returned to Cyprus and worked for two years…
Lai Kow Chan, an IMS Fellow with expertise in statistical quality control and a visionary academic leader, died in Hong Kong on December 23, 2020, aged 80.
Lai was born in Hong Kong on November 5, 1940. His first university degree was from Hong Kong Baptist College in 1962, after…
During her 2019 term as ASA President, Karen Kafadar (who is now Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics) convened a Task Force to address issues surrounding the use of p-values and statistical significance, as well as their connection to replicability. The report from the task force and…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow was a leading figure in the field of economic theory. Although he passed away in 2017, we only learned of this more recently, in the compilation of the IMS Scientific Legacy Database. Arrow was an IMS Fellow, among his many honors.
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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes:
In an interview for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Robert Thurman, who was, until his retirement in 2019, the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, warned listeners about the potentially noxious and certainly annoying “stink of enlightenment,” which is the prideful attitude…