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Professor Stephen Blyth's Generosity Featured

May 10, 2017

PhD Alumnus and Professor of the Practice Stephen Blyth's generosity is featured on the Harvard Alumni page. "Anyone cataloguing the many gifts Stephen Blyth PhD ’92 has made to Harvard over the last decade could use an annotated guide. He has named each benefaction—whether to financial aid, House Renewal, or graduate education—for his wife, his parents, a faculty advisor, Tufnell Park (a tube stop near his boyhood home in North London), or for other connections.... Read more about Professor Stephen Blyth's Generosity Featured

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Harvard' Master of Science (SM) Degree in Data Science

May 10, 2017
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Science (SM) degree in Data Science. The new degree, under the joint academic leadership of the Computer Science and Statistics faculties and administered through the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS), will train students in the rapidly growing field of data science. The first class will start at Harvard in the Fall of 2018. More details are at http://www.seas.harvard.edu/programs/graduate/applied-computation/master-of-science-in-data-science. Read more about Harvard' Master of Science (SM) Degree in Data Science
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2017 Dempster Prize Winners: Espen Bernton and Xinran Lin

May 9, 2017

The Department of Statistics has awarded the 2017 Dempster Prize to Espen Bernton and Xinran Lin for their research papers.  The award “supports and recognize promising graduate students within the Department of Statistics, in particular those who have made significant contributions to theoretical or foundational research in statistics.”  It is named in honor of Professor Arthur P. Dempster.  Espen’s paper was entitled “Inference in generative models using Wasserstein distance,” while Xinran’s paper was called “Randomization inference for peer effects.”

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