John Chambers (statistician)

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John M. Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language project. He was awarded the 1998 ACM Software System Award for developing S.[1] He donated his prize money (US$10,000) to the American Statistical Association to endow an award for novel statistical software.[2]

Chambers is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[3]

He was a Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.[4] He received a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Harvard University.[5]

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References

  1. ACM honors Dr. John M. Chambers of Bell Labs with the 1998 ACM Software System Award for creating "S System" software, ACM press release, March 29, 1999. Accessed 8 December 2008.
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  4. Stanford University Department of Statistics Page for John M. Chambers. Accessed January 16, 2010.
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