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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…
Each year the IMS makes awards in the following categories:
Tweedie New Researcher Award
Richard L. Tweedie played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. With funds donated by his friends and family, the IMS created the “Tweedie New…
Bhramar Mukherjee, Treasurer/Secretary of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, presents her profile of, and interview with, the winner of the Presidents’ Awards, Sam Kou.
Congratulations to Samuel Kou, Harvard University, the 2012 COPSS Presidents’ Award winner! The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) annually presents awards to…
Featuring news items about Robert Tibshirani, Ruth Williams, Tom Liggett, Snehalata Huzurbazar, Hui Zou, Søren Asmussen, Dimitris Politis, Ken Burnham
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…
