George Ross Ihaka (born 1954[2]) is a New Zealand statistician who was an associate professor of statistics at the University of Auckland until his retirement in 2017.[3] Alongside Robert Gentleman, he is one of the creators of the R programming language.[4][5][6] In 2008, Ihaka received the Pickering Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, for his work on R.[7]
Ross Ihaka | |
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 Ihaka at the 2010 New Zealand Open Source Awards | |
| Born | George Ross Ihaka 1954 (age 69–70) |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | R programming language |
| Awards | Pickering Medal (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical computing |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
| Thesis | Rūaumoko (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | David R. Brillinger[1] |
| Website | www |
Education
editIhaka completed his undergraduate education at the University of Auckland, and obtained his PhD in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley supervised by David R. Brillinger.[1] His thesis was on statistical modelling for seismic interferometry and was titled Rūaumoko, after the god of earthquakes, volcanoes and seasons in Māori mythology.[1][8][9]
Career and research
editAs of 2010, he was working on a new statistical programming language based on Lisp.[10][11] The Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland started a public lecture series in his honour in 2017.[12]
Personal life
editIhaka is of Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne and Ngati Pākehā (New Zealand European) descent.[6][13]
References
edit- ^ a b c Ross Ihaka at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Wickham, Hadley (2014). Advanced R. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC. p. 437. ISBN 9780429192678.
- ^ "Ross Ihaka retires from the Department of Statistics – The University of Auckland". stat.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ Ihaka, R.; Gentleman, R. (1996). "R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 5 (3): 299–314. doi:10.2307/1390807. JSTOR 1390807.
- ^ Vance, Ashlee (7 January 2009). "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ^ a b Middleton, Juliet (9 January 2009). "Academic unfazed by rock star status". The New Zealand Herald.
- ^ Pickering Medal: Recipients, Royal Society of New Zealand.
- ^ Ihaka, George Ross (1985). Rūaumoko. berkeley.edu (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 910485430. ProQuest 303363827.
- ^ "David R. Brillinger's students". stat.berkeley.edu. Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ Ihaka, Ross; Temple Lang, Duncan (25 August 2008). "Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System" (PDF). Compstat 2008. pp. 21–33. doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2084-3_2. ISBN 978-3-7908-2083-6.
- ^ Ihaka, Ross (2010). R: Lessons Learned, Directions for the Future (PDF). Joint Statistical Meetings 2010, Statistical Computing Section.
- ^ "Ihaka Lecture Series – The University of Auckland". stat.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ www
.stat .auckland .ac .nz /~ihaka /
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