John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award - 2010 Statistical Computing Section
American Statistical Association
The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association
announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award.
In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery presented its Software System
Award to John Chambers for the design and development of S. Dr. Chambers
generously donated his award to the Statistical Computing Section to endow an
annual prize for statistical software written by an undergraduate or graduate
student. The prize carries with it a cash award of $1000, plus a substantial
allowance for travel to the annual Joint Statistical Meetings where the award
will be presented.
Teams of up to 3 people can participate in the competition, with the cash award
being split among team members. The travel allowance will be given to just one
individual in the team, who will be presented the award at JSM. To be eligible,
the team must have designed and implemented a piece of statistical software.
The individual within the team indicated to receive the travel allowance must
have begun the development while a student, and must either currently be a
student, or have completed all requirements for her/his last degree after
January 1, 2008. To apply for the award, teams must provide the following
materials:
Current CV's of all team members.
A letter from a faculty mentor at the academic institution of the individual
indicated to receive the travel award. The letter should confirm that the
individual had substantial participation in the development of the software,
certify her/his student status when the software began to be developed (and
either the current student status or the date of degree completion), and briefly
discuss the importance of the software to statistical practice.
A brief, one to two page description of the software, summarizing what it does,
how it does it, and why it is an important contribution. If the team member
competing for the travel allowance has continued developing the software after
finishing her/his studies, the description should indicate what was developed
when the individual was a student and what has been added since.
Access to the software by the award committee for their use on inputs of their
choosing. Access to the software can consist of an executable file, Web-based
access, macro code, or other appropriate form. Access should be accompanied by
enough information to allow the judges to effectively use and evaluate the
software (including its design considerations.) This information can be
provided in a variety of ways, including but not limited to a user manual (paper
or electronic), a paper, a URL, online help to the system, and source code. In
particular, the entrant must be prepared to provide complete source code for
inspection by the committee if requested.
All materials must be in English. We prefer that electronic text be submitted
in Postscript or PDF. The entries will be judged on a variety of dimensions,
including the importance and relevance for statistical practice of the tasks
performed by the software, ease of use, clarity of description, elegance and
availability for use by the statistical community. Preference will be given to
those entries that are grounded in software design rather than calculation. The
decision of the award committee is final.
All application materials must be received by 5:00pm EST, Monday, February 22,
2010 at the address below. The winner will be announced in May and the award
will be given at the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Information on the competition can also be accessed on the website of the
Statistical Computing Section (www.statcomputing.org or see the ASA website,
www.amstat.org for a pointer), including the names and contributions of previous
winners. Inquiries and application materials should be emailed or mailed to:
Chambers Software Award
c/o Fei Chen
Avaya Labs
233 Mt Airy Rd.
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
feic@avaya.com
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