Awards and professional activities

Chris Volinsky was elected Program Chair of the Section on Statistical Computer of the American Statistical Association for 2012.

Vaidyanathan Ramaswami was Keynote Speaker at the 12th Canadian National Queueing Theory conference (CANQUEUE 2010) at Manitoba, Canada

David Poole was elected Program Chair of the Section on Statistical Computer of the American Statistical Association for 2011.

Bob Bell and Chris Volinsky were part of the team that won the $1 Million Netflix Prize!

Simon Urbanek was elected Chair of the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association for 2010.

Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples, by Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek, was published in October, 2008.

Deborah Swayne, and David Poole were among the authors of a chapter included in Beautiful Data, published in 2009.

Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis with R and GGobi, by Di Cook and Deborah Swayne, was published in 2007.

Bob Bell, Chris Volinsky, and Patrick Haffner won Task 1 of the 2006 KDD Cup, using a modified boosted trees algorithm to classify potential sites as pulmonary embolisms or not.

Deborah Swayne was named Fellow of the American Statistical Association. (2005)