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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 http://www.statcomputing.org or see the ASA
website, http://www.amstat.org for a pointer), including the names and
contributions of previous winners.

我强烈建议COSer们组个队参加这次竞赛。



我和Fei Chen认识,当然这并不会有什么直接的好处,不过关于这次竞赛,另有好消息,只是我不便说了。
6 个月 后
提醒一下各位Chambers Award马上就要到截止日期了(2月15日),要参加的赶紧发送你的作品!
15 天 后
5 天 后
可惜了,没有收到一件来自国内的作品……
10 年 后

十年后再来提醒一下,这个奖项的提交截止日期快到了,学生时代写过拿得出手的软件的同学抓紧时间上:http://asa.stat.uconn.edu