John Chambers (statistician)
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John McKinley Chambers (born April 28, 1941) 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
John McKinley Chambers was born on April 28, 1941, in Toronto, Ontario.[2] He 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][3][4]
Career
Chambers started at Bell Laboratories in 1966 as a member of its technical staff.[1][4] 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][4] In 1989, he moved back to full-time research and in 1995, he became a distinguished member of the technical staff.[1][4] 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.[4]
After retiring from Bell Labs, Chambers became a visiting professor at the University of Auckland, University of California, Los Angeles and Stanford University.[4][5] 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.[4]
Chambers is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[4][3]
Awards and accomplishments
Chambers has received the following awards:
- 1998, awarded the ACM Software System Award for developing the S programming language. The award was presented on May 15, 1999.[1]
- 2004, awarded an honorary Doctor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo[4]
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.[6]
Bibliography
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