Jerry@80

A Birthday Celebration for Jerry Friedman

May 15, 2019 ● 8:30am to 4:30pm (Pacific) with a Reception and Dinner to follow

Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center ● 475 Via Ortega ● Mackenzie Room 300

Jerry Friedman has been with the Statistics Department at Stanford for nearly forty years. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in statistics and data mining, and has been called a founding father of data mining software.

“I was always interested in what Leo Breiman called large and complex data sets (now called data mining)... . I guess it’s a kind of data that I first encountered in physics, moderately high-dimensional, a fair amount of data, the number of observations usually considerably larger than the number of measured variables. I was always interested in developing general-purpose algorithms where one could pour the data in and hope to get something sensible out without a lot of labor-intensive work on the part of the data analyst.”

During his career, Jerry has added a remarkable array of landmark publications and new methodologies to data mining and machine learning, representing one of the broadest ranges of important contributions by any one person in the field. A gathering of former students, current colleagues, family and friends are delighted to present this day-long symposium in his honor.

Agenda & Invited Speakers

time	activity
8:30a	Continental Breakfast
9:15a	Welcome – Rob Tibshirani and Trevor Hastie
9:30a	Mark Segal, UC San Francisco “What would Jerry do? – Some cosmically diverse PRIM applications”
10:00a	David Henry, Bristol-Myers Squibb “Jerry@82 (1982, that is)”
10:30a	Morning Coffee Break
10:45a	Jan Pedersen, Uber Technologies “Gradient Boosted Trees at 20: A View from Industry”
11:15a	Giles Hooker, Cornell University “Boosted Trees and Statistical Inference: A Roadmap”
12:00n	Barbeque Lunch with the Statistics Department at their 2019 Spring Party
1:30p	Art Owen, Stanford University “Good points! An appreciation of Jerome Friedman”
2:00p	Nick Fisher, University of Sydney “How to fool some of the CEOs all of the time: Net-Promoter Score versus good market research practice”
2:30p	Afternoon Coffee Break Trevor Hastie: “Jerry and airport security”
3:00p	Andreas Buja, University of Pennsylvania “How Jerry ACEd Regression”
3:30p	Werner Stuetzle, University of Washington “Jerry in the Age of Trees”
4:00p	Closing Remarks