John M. Chambers

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John Mckinley Chambers (born April 28, 1941 in Toronto ) is a Canadian computer scientist and statistician. He is known for developing the statistical software S (1976) and its successor R .

Chambers studied at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1965 and a doctorate in statistics in 1966. He then worked at Bell Laboratories as a supervisor for statistics. 1966/67 he was visiting professor at Imperial College London , 1969 at Harvard University and 1971 at Princeton University . From 1981 to 1983 he headed the Advanced Software department at Bell Labs and from 1983 to 1989 he headed research in the field of statistics and data analysis. He then returned to research at Bell Labs. In 1995 he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and in 1997 a Fellow of Bell Labs. In 2005 he retired. Since then he has taught at the University of Auckland , the University of California, Los Angeles , and Stanford University, among others .

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Association for Computing Machinery , the Royal Statistical Society , the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Statistical Association, and a member of the International Statistical Institute . In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo . In 1998 he received the ACM Software System Award for the development of S, the reason being: "For The S system, which has forever altered how people analyze, visualize, and manipulate data."

Fonts

  • Editor with Trevor J. Hastie: Statistical Models in S, Wadsworth and Brooks 1992
  • Programming with Data: A guide to the S Language, Springer Verlag 1998
  • with others: Graphical Models for Data Analysis, Wadsworth International 1983
  • with Richard A. Becker: Extending the S System, Wadsworth 1985
  • with Richard A. Becker: S: an interactive environment for data analysis and graphics, Wadsworth 1984
  • with Richard A. Becker, Allan R. Wilks: The new S language: a programming environment for data analysis and graphics, Wadsworth and Brooks 1988
  • Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R, Springer Verlag 2008
  • Computational Methods for Data Analysis, Wiley 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/chambers_6640862.cfm
personal data
SURNAME Chambers, John M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chambers, John Mckinley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian statistician and software developer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto