John Chambers (statistician) explained

John Chambers
Birth Name:John McKinley Chambers
Fields:Statistical computing
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    Alma Mater:University of Toronto (BSc)
    Harvard University (MA, PhD)
    Known For:R programming language

    John McKinley 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]

    Early life

    Chambers received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto in 1963. He received a Master of Arts in 1965 and a PhD degree in 1966, both in statistics, from Harvard University.[1] [2] [3]

    Career

    Chambers started at Bell Laboratories in 1966 as a member of its technical staff.[1] [3] From 1981 to 1983, he was the head of its Advanced Software Department and from 1983 to 1989 he was the head of its Statistics and Data Analysis Research Department.[1] [3] In 1989, he moved back to full-time research and in 1995, he became a distinguished member of the technical staff.[1] [3] In 1997, he was made the first Fellow of Bell Labs and was cited for "pioneering contributions to the field of statistical computing".[1] He remained a distinguished member of the technical staff and a Fellow until his retirement from Bell Labs in 2005.[3]

    After retiring from Bell Labs, Chambers became a visiting professor at the University of Auckland, University of California, Los Angeles and Stanford University.[3] [4] Since 2008, he has been active at Stanford, currently serving as Senior Advisor of its data science program and an adjunct professor in Stanford's Department of Statistics.[3]

    Chambers is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[3] [2]

    Awards and accomplishments

    Chambers has received the following awards:

    John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award

    Following his 1998 ACM Software System Award, Chambers donated his prize money (US$10,000) to the American Statistical Association to endow an award for novel statistical software, the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award.[5]

    Bibliography

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: ACM honors Dr. John M. Chambers of Bell Labs with the 1998 ACM Software System Award for creating "S System" software . 2008-09-21 . Association for Computing Machinery . https://web.archive.org/web/20150827152522/https://www.acm.org/announcements/ss99.html . 2015-08-27 . 2021-05-26 . dead.
    2. Web site: John M. Chambers - Vitae . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707222829/http://stat.bell-labs.com/jmc/vitae.html . 2011-07-07.
    3. Web site: John M. Chambers - Vitae . Stanford University . 2021-05-26.
    4. https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/john-chambers Stanford University Department of Statistics Page for John M. Chambers.
    5. Web site: John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. ASA Statistics Computing and Graphics .

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