large-scale multiple testing, nonparametric function vehicles for communicating the use of statistics
estimation, functional data analysis, inference for in business and industry to both statisticians and
discrete distributions, and statistical decision theory. practitioners. He has contributed significantly to
He is also interested in applications to compressed the establishment of the journal Technometrics (of
sensing, chemical identification, medical imaging, which he was founding editor), the ASQ-ASA Fall
and microarray data analysis. Technical Conference, the Deming Conference,
and the Spring Research Conference, as well as The
International Environmetrics Society.
Hunter is one of only seven living honorary
members of the 90,000-member American Society
Alistair Sinclair
for Quality. He is the winner of ASQ’s 1959 and
IMS Medallion Lecture
1985 Brumbaugh Award for the paper found to
“have made the largest single contribution to the
“ Markov Chain Monte Carlo in
development and application of quality control”
Theoretical Computer Science”
and of its Deming Medal (presented personally
Tuesday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.
by Deming). His accomplishments also have been
recognized with the Ott Award, Shewhart Medal,
Youden Award, U.S. Army Wilks Medal, ASA
Alistair Sinclair is professor of computer science at Founder’s Medal, and ASA Outstanding Statistician
the University of California, Berkeley. His main of the Year Award for the Chicago Chapter. Hunter
research interests are in algorithms and complexity is a Fellow of the American Association for the
theory, with a focus on randomized algorithms. In Advancement of Science and a longtime member of
his work, he has been particularly concerned with the advisory editorial board for the John Wiley Series
making connections with related fields, especially on Probability and Statistics. In 1993, he served as
applied probability and statistical physics. Sinclair president of the ASA. The Environmetrics Society
was awarded the Gödel Prize in 1996 and the established the J. Stuart Hunter Annual Lecture
Fulkerson Prize in 2006. in his honor. In 2004, he received a distinguished
alumni award from North Carolina State’s College
of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, where he
recently created and continues to support a univer-
sity chair. He has received honorary doctor of science
J. SJ tuart Hunter
degrees from both North Carolina State University
and Pennsylvania State University and he is an elected
Deming LD ecture
member of the National Academy of Engineering.
“ Deming Today”
In addition to his PhD in experimental statistics
TTuuesday, August 4, 4:00 p.m.
(1954), Hunter holds a BS in electrical engineering
and an MS in mathematics from North Carolina
State. Earlier in his career, he worked for the American
Cyanamid Company, served as a staff member of the
J. Stuart (Stu) Hunter, professor emeritus of the
National Academy of Sciences, and was a member of
School of Engineering and Applied Science at
the Mathematics Research Center of the University of
Princeton University, has been a highly influential
Wisconsin. He developed and presented 32 widely dis-
innovator and tireless advocate of the use of statisti-
tributed TV programs in a continuing education series
cal methods and thinking for quality improvement
(accompanied by seven volumes of text) on statistics
for more than 50 years. He knew and admired W.
for problemsolving and the design of experiments
Edwards Deming and his work.
(long before the subject gained popularity), produced
Through his numerous ground-breaking techni-
by Westinghouse Learning. Hunter joined Princeton
cal contributions, Hunter has both expanded the
University in 1960, where he was a professor in the
horizons of the applications of statistics in business
Department of Civil Engineering. He has lectured and
and industry and made statistical methods more
consulted worldwide throughout his career.
accessible and understandable to countless practi-
Born in 1923 in Holyoke, Massachussets, Hunter is
tioners. His text, Statistics for Experimenters, co-au-
the husband of the late Edna Taylor Martz (Tady) and
thored with George Box and the late Bill Hunter, is
the proud father of three children and eight grandchil-
one of the most influential books on statistics ever
dren. He served in the U.S. Army during World War
written; it is a classic in the field. Hunter also has
II in the Philippines, is a past member of the Technical
contributed more than 100 articles to the statistical
Advisory Board of the U.S. Golf Association, and has
and subject matter literature.
performed in the role of the captain in Gilbert and
Hunter is a visionary and has served as a lead-
Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore.”
ing figure in establishing many of today’s key
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