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, or in collaboration with, 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 (JSM) 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, 2013. 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.
* An installable software package with its source code for use by the
award committee. It 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, and online help to the system.
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, Tuesday, February 18,
2014 at the address below. The winner will be announced in May and the award
will be given at the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Student Paper Competition
c/o Aarti Munjal
Colorado School of Public Health
University of Colorado Denver
aarti.mun...@ucdenver.edu<mailto:aarti.mun...@ucdenver.edu>
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Aarti Munjal, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Informatics
Colorado School of Public Health
University of Colorado Denver
Office Phone: 303-724-6273
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