AWARD DEADLINES AND INFORMATION
John M. Chambers Statistical
Deadlines and Contact Information for ASA National
Software Award 2008
Awards, Special Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
The Statistical Computing Section of the
American Statistical Association announces
March 15, 2008 Mary Ellen Bock
the competition for the John M. Chambers
Founders Award Purdue University
Statistical Software Award. In 1998, the
Dept. of Statistics
Association for Computing Machinery pre-
250 N. University Street
sented its Software System Award to John
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066
Chambers for the design and development Phone: (765) 494-3141
of S. Chambers generously donated his Fax: (765) 494-0558
award to the Statistical Computing Section
mbock@stat.purdue.edu
to endow an annual prize for statistical soft-
ware written by, or in collaboration with,
March 15, 2008 Neil R. Ullman
W. J. Youden Award in Ullman Associates
an undergraduate or graduate student. The
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prize carries with it a cash award of $1,000,
Florham Park, NJ 07932-2714
plus a substantial allowance for travel to the
Phone: (973) 822-3327
annual Joint Statistical Meetings, where the
Fax: (973) 822-3327
award will be presented.
neil1@ullman.net
Teams of up to three people may partici-
pate in the competition, with the cash award
April 1, 2008 Daniel Zelterman
being split among team members. The trav-
Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health
el allowance will be given to just one team
Box 208034
member, who will be presented the award
Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520-8034
at JSM. To be eligible, the team must have
Phone: (203) 785-5574
designed and implemented a piece of sta-
Fax: (203) 785-6912
daniel.zelterman@yale.edu
tistical software. The individual within the
team indicated to receive the travel allow-
April 1, 2008 Barry I. Graubard
ance must have begun the development
Committee on Award of National Cancer Institute
while a student and must either currently Outstanding Statistical Application Biostatistics Branch
be a student or have completed all require- 6120 Executive Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20852
ments for her/his last degree after January 1,
Phone: (301) 496-7455
2006. To apply for the award, teams must
Fax: (301) 402-0081
provide the following materials:
graubarb@mail.nih.gov
Current CVs of all team members April 1, 2008 Elaine Zanutto
Edward C. bryant Scholarship National Analysts
A letter from a faculty mentor at the
1835 Market St., 25th Floor
academic institution of the individual
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2984
indicated to receive the travel award.
Phone: (215) 496 6878
The letter should confirm the individual
Fax: (215) 496-6801
had substantial participation in the
ezanutto@nationalanalysts.com
development of the software, certify
her/his student status when the software
April 15, 2008 Donald A. Berry
began to be developed (and either the
Excellence in Statistical The University of Texas MD Anderson
current student status or the date of
Reporting Award Cancer Center
degree completion), and briefly discuss
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Houston, TX 77030
the importance of the software to
Phone: (713) 794-4141
statistical practice.
Fax: (713) 563-4242
A brief, one- to two-page description of
dberry@mdanderson.org
the software, summarizing what it does,
how it does it, and why it is an important
contribution. If the team member
Details can be found at
www.amstat.org/awards.
competing for the travel allowance
continued developing the software after
finishing her/his studies, the description
should indicate what was developed while
the individual was a student and what has
been added since.
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