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 |
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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 |
10:30a | Morning Coffee Break |
10:45a |
Jan Pedersen, Uber Technologies |
11:15a |
Giles Hooker, Cornell University |
12:00n | Barbeque Lunch with the Statistics Department at their 2019 Spring Party |
1:30p |
Art Owen, Stanford University |
2:00p |
Nick Fisher, University of Sydney |
2:30p |
Afternoon Coffee Break Trevor Hastie: “Jerry and airport security” |
3:00p |
Andreas Buja, University of Pennsylvania |
3:30p |
Werner Stuetzle, University of Washington |
4:00p | Closing Remarks |