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34 1 ISSUE.Indd Volume 34 Issue 1 IMS Bulletin January/February 2005 Stand on Giants’ Shoulders CONTENTS Google™, the internet search 2-3 Members’ News & con- engine, has launched a tacts; Profi le: Charles new search facility which Newman focuses on fi nding academic 4 R A Fisher Digital Archive research papers. Google Scholar™ can be found 5 Open Access: NIH vs online at http://scholar. Publishers Image: freephoto.com google.com. Th e service is 6 Terence’s Stuff : How to do free, and will enable searches statistical research for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, 7 Nominations and Awards; books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of StatSci news research. 8 Obituary: I Richard Savage According to a press release, Google Scholar will also off er ways to fi nd scholarly works in “hard copy” that are not available on the 10 Meet the Members Internet, by listing copies held in academic libraries. 11 Letter to the Editor; Just as with the Google web search facility, Google Scholar orders Paul Shaman profi led your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the 12 CBMS News most useful references should appear at the top of the page. Th is rel- evance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well 13 Banff International Research Station as the article’s author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. 14 IMS Meetings Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations 24 Other Meetings and and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they Announcements refer to are not online. Th is means your search results may include 28 Employment citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in Opportunities books or other offl ine publications. At the Google Scholar webpage, Google says, “We recognize 33 International Calendar of Statistical Events the debt we owe to all those in academia whose work has made Google itself a reality and we hope to make Google 35 Information for Scholar as useful to this community as possible. We Advertisers believe everyone should have a chance to stand on the shoulders of giants.” Further details about Scholar Google™ can be found at http://scholar.google.com/ scholar/about.html. Google™ (http:// www.google.com) and Google Scholar™ (http://scholar.google.com) are trademarks of Google Inc. IMS 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 34 . Issue 1 Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 1 January/February 2005 ISSN 1544-1881 Member News COPSS Awards J Michael Harrison receives 2004 von The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Neumann Theory Prize Contact Societies (COPSS) presented their annual The 2004 John von Neumann Theory Prize Information awards at the Joint Statistical Meetings in has been awarded to J Michael Harrison, Toronto, in August. IMS Bulletin somewhat Stanford University Graduate Business Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman belatedly congratulates the recipients! School’s Adams Distinguished Professor of Assistant Editor Tati Howell The call for nominations for the COPSS Management, for his “profound contribu- awards that will be announced at JSM2005 tions to two major areas of operations To contact the IMS Bulletin: is at the COPSS web site:http://www.niss. research and management science: stochas- Send by email: [email protected] org/copss. tic networks and mathematical finance.” or mail to: The citation also read, “It is difficult to IMS Bulletin 2004 Presidents’ Award winner: overstate the impact that this work has had, 20 Shadwell Uley, Dursley Michael A Newton (Departments of ranging from the most abstract theory of GL11 5BW Statistics and of Biostatistics and Medical stochastic processes to the day-to-day func- UK Informatics, University of Wisconsin- tioning of the financial industry.” Madison): For ingenious and wide-ranging In his acceptance speech, Harrison contributions to statistical theory and method- acknowledged his debt to collaborators, To contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or ology, including Bayesian inference, the boot- who, he said, “have played a major role in change of address: strap, and tree reconstruction; for applications shaping my career.” He also listed three of statistical methodology, especially in genetics “crucial factors” in his 35 year research Institute of Mathematical Statistics Dues and Subscriptions Office and genomics; and for outstanding training of career at Stanford: “the school’s stability, its 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A graduate students. commitment to developing junior faculty, Bethesda, and its scholarly orientation”. MD 20814-3998 2004 Fisher Lecturer: The von Neumann Theory Prize is USA Donald B Rubin (Department of Statistics, awarded annually by the Institute for t 301.634.7029 Harvard University): For fundamental and Operations Research and the Management f 301.634.7099 innovative contributions to scientific investiga- Sciences (INFORMS) to a scholar who has e staff@imstat.org tion through the development and promotion made fundamental, sustained contributions of modern statistical methodologies including to theory in operations research and the To contact the IMS regarding any other missing data methods, causal inference, the management sciences, recognizing a body of matter, including advertising, copyright EM algorithm and multiple imputations, and work that has stood the test of time. More permission, offprint orders, copyright for his considerable impact on applied data about INFORMS awards, prizes and schol- transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows nominations and content of analysis and Bayesian statistics. arships at http://www.informs.org/Prizes/ publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson 2004 Elizabeth L. Scott Award winner: IMS Business Office Gladys H Reynolds (Senior Statistician, PO Box 22718 Office of the Director, Centers for Disease IMS LAHA TRAVEL AWARDS Beachwood, Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, OH 44122 GA): For her outstanding leadership and com- Deadline: February 1, 2005 USA mitment to the field of biostatistics/epidemiol- t 216.295.2340 Students and new researchers ogy, to national and international health, and f 216.295.5661 Apply now to fund travel to to the promotion of women and underrepre- e [email protected] JSM Minneapolis (August 7–11, sented groups to the full potential of their roles 2005) to present a paper. See in statistics and public health management http://imstat.org/awards/laha.html. and professional society positions. Executive Committee January/February . 2005 IMS Bulletin . 3 President Louis Chen [email protected] President-Elect Thomas G Kurtz [email protected] Profile: Charles Newman Past President Terry Speed [email protected] IMS Fellow Professor Charles M Newman was elected this year to Membership of the Executive Secretary Alicia Carriquiry National Academy of Sciences. His colleague and friend Raghu Varadhan profiles him: [email protected] harles M Newman, known as Treasurer Jiayang Sun Chuck to his friends, is currently [email protected] busy juggling many things in his Program Secretary Andrew Nobel Cprofessional life. As the Director of the [email protected] Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York, which consists of two IMS Editors departments (Mathematics and Computer Annals of Statistics Morris Eaton Science) and a center (for Atmospheric and [email protected] Ocean Science), along with a wide range of & Jianqing Fan [email protected] other activities of a scientific nature, he is almost like a Dean at New York University. Annals of Probability Steven Lalley [email protected] With being a Dean comes the task of rais- ing funds by trying to persuade those that Annals of Applied Probability Robert Adler have it to part with it for the benefit of Courant Institute – which is a nontrivial task. [email protected] Another major interest, and perhaps even more difficult than fund-raising, is the task Statistical Science Ed George of improving mathematics education at the level of elementary and high schools in the [email protected]fl.edu United States. Somehow a large portion of the students going through the public education IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series system in the USA manage to graduate from high school without having learned the basic Richard Vitale mathematics skills needed for a wide range of professions. A group of committed individu- [email protected] als, including mathematics faculty, schoolteachers and parents of schoolchildren, have been Managing Editor - Statistics working hard for several years to improve this, and Chuck is seriously involved in this Paul Shaman process. [email protected] But I am sure what Chuck likes the best, and is having lots of fun with, is his third Managing Editor - Probability activity: being a research mathematician. These days he is immersed in such things as Michael Phelan Brownian webs and Loop processes. [email protected] Chuck was born in Chicago in 1946. His father was a first generation immigrant from Electronic Journal of Probability Warsaw and his mother was born in Chicago. He finished high school early and went Ted Cox [email protected] to MIT at the age of sixteen. He graduated in four years with two bachelors degrees, in Mathematics and Physics, and went on to Princeton for graduate study in Physics, where Electronic Communications in Probability Martin Barlow he obtained his PhD in 1971, working with Arthur Wightman. His dissertation was [email protected] on Quantum Field Theory. This led naturally to an interest in Probability Theory and Managing Editor - EJP/ECP Statistical Mechanics. Zhenqing Chen Chuck’s first position in 1971 was at NYU. He started working on such areas of sta- [email protected] tistical mechanics as Ising models, correlation inequalities, phase transitions and behavior IMS Bulletin Bernard Silverman at criticality. He moved to Indiana and then to Arizona before returning to New York in & Tati Howell 1989. He has, during this period, worked on percolation, spin glasses and other problems [email protected] concerning disordered systems.
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