2001: A Statistical Odyssey
Daryl Pregibon
AT&T Bell Laboratories
This talk is an interim report on the 5 year plan launched in 1996 to
provide a theoretical and computational foundation of Statistics for
massive data sets. The plan coincided with the formation of AT&T Labs and
the proposed research agenda of the InfoLab, which is both a physical
laboratory and an interdisciplinary collection of information researchers
in CS, mathematics, and Statistics. At the halfway point of this odyssey
we can identify some success stories but more importantly it is an
opportune time to re-calibrate the challenges and the milestones.
Questions? Jiming Jiang