John M. Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language

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 project. He was awarded the 1998 ACM Software System Award

ACM Software System Award

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 for developing S. He donated his prize money (US$10,000) to the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

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 to endow an award for novel statistical software.

Chambers is a Fellow

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 of the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

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, the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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 and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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.

He is presently a Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.