An earlier version of this notice contained a small but significant error in the eligibility criteria. The award is open to researchers who are either currently students or who are within three years of their last degree. The revised announcement below is correct. My apologies for the confusion. lg John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award Statistical Computing Section American Statistical Association The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the second 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 in Atlanta, GA in August 2001 where the award will be presented. To be eligible, an entrant must have designed and implemented a piece of statistical software. The applicant must have begun the development while a student, and must either currently be a student, or have completed all requirements for the last degree earned after January 1, 1998. To apply for the award, entrants must provide the following materials: · A current CV. · A letter from a faculty mentor at their academic institution. The letter should confirm that the software is the work of the student, certify the student status of the entrant when the software began to be developed (and either the current student status and 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 entrant has continued developing the software after finishing their studies, the description should indicate what was developed when the entrant 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. 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. 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, and elegance. 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 PST, Wednesday, February 28, 2001 at the address below. We prefer that electronic text be submitted in Postscript or PDF. All materials must be in English. The winner will be announced in the spring of 2001. Information on the competition can also be accessed on the website of the Statistical Computing Section, including the names and contributions of previous winners. A current pointer to the section website is available from the ASA website at www.amstat.org. Inquiries and application materials should be emailed or mailed to: Chambers Software Award c/o Lionel Galway The RAND Corporation 1700 Main St. Santa Monica, CA 90407 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lionel Galway Senior Statistician The RAND Corporation voice: 310-393-0411 X7957 1700 Main St. fax: 310-393-4818 Santa Monica, CA 90401 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was distributed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the BODY of the message: unsubscribe s-news ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================