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Bob Bell and Chris
Other members of the win- ranging from one to five stars. and researchers. Kutner is a
Volinsky
ning team include Martin All personal information co-author of Applied Linear
Chabbert, Michael Jahrer, identifying individual Netflix Statistical Models and Applied
Yehuda Koren, Martin Piotte, members was removed from Linear Regression Models
ASA members Bob Bell
and Andreas Toscher. All the prize data, which con- and has made significant
and Chris Volinsky—along
team members attended the tained only movie titles, star contributions in service to
with their team, BellKor’s
awards ceremony in New ratings, and dates. No text the American Statistical
Pragmatic Chaosw— on the
York City on September 21. reviews were included. More Association and the profes-
$1 million Netflix Prize for
Netflix launched the than 40,000 teams from sion. He has developed and
coming up with an algorithm
competition in October around the world competed. delivered numerous short
that improved the online
2006 and made available The team prepared a courses for industry and gov-
movie rental service’s recom-
to contestants 100 million system description con- ernment and has given many
mendation system.
anonymous movie ratings sisting of three papers, presentations at national
which can be downloaded and international meetings.
at
www.netflixprize.com/ The deadline to nominate
USA Team
community. For more infor- someone for the 2010 award
mation, visit www.research.att. is April 1. Nominations can
Wins Medals
com/~volinsky/netflix/bpc.html. be sent to Roxy Peck, 1510
Third St., Los Osos, CA
93402. The recipient of the
Michael H. Kutner award will be notified on or
T
he USA Mathematical Olympiad team won two gold
before June 15, 2010, and
medals and four silver medals while competing in the
presented a plaque during
50th Annual International Mathematical Olympiad in
JSM in August of 2010.
Bremen, Germany, this past July. Students were given six
Questions regarding this
problems to solve over two days, each problem being worth
award can be emailed to
seven points for a total of 42 points. The point total for the
Peck at
rpeck@calpoly.edu.
USA team placed them sixth internationally, with 104 coun-
tries competing.
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honor society for statistics,
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presented its 10th Statistical
Education Award to Michael
H. Kutner of Emory
University. This award recog-
nizes excellence in undergrad-
Parzen
uate or graduate statistical
education at the institutional,
Emanuel Parzen retired
Proud of their accomplishment, the usA team shows off their medals.
regional, or national level.
on August 31, 2009, after
From left: Delong meng, evan o’Dorney, John berman, Qinxuan Pan,
In a career spanning
Wenyu Cao, and eric Larson
more than 30 years of ser-
nearly 50 years, Kutner has
vice to the Department of
been a faculty member at
Statistics at Texas A&M
The medal winners include the following:
Virginia Tech, Texas A&M,
University. Parzen earned
Gold Medal - John Berman, Wilmington, North Carolina
The College of William
his bachelor’s degree from
Gold Medal - Eric Larson, Eugene, Oregon
and Mary, the Cleveland
Harvard University in 1949
Clinic Foundation, and
Silver Medal - Wenyu Cao, Andover, Massachusetts
and PhD from the University
Emory University. He is
of California, Berkeley, in
Silver Medal - Delong Meng, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
recognized as an outstand-
1953. He has served as a
Silver Medal - Evan O’Dorney, Danville, California ing teacher, mentor, and
statistics faculty member at
Silver Medal - Qinxuan Pan, Rockville, Maryland
academic leader, as he has
Columbia, Stanford, and
been effective in mentoring
SUNY Buffalo. He also
The American Statistical Association is a sponsor of the
students as consultants and
served as visiting faculty at
competition.
young faculty as teachers
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