Ross Ihaka
Encyclopedia
Ross Ihaka is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland
, who is recognized, along with Robert Gentleman
, as one of the originators of the R programming language. He received the Royal Society of New Zealand
's Pickering Medal in 2008 for his work on R.
University of Auckland
The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...
, who is recognized, along with Robert Gentleman
Robert Gentleman (statistician)
Robert C. Gentleman is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician currently working for Genentech. He is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and associated software packages like Bioconductor. He got his Ph.D...
, as one of the originators of the R programming language. He received the Royal Society of New Zealand
Royal Society of New Zealand
The Royal Society of New Zealand , known as the New Zealand Institute before 1933, was established in 1867 to co-ordinate and assist the activities of a number of regional research societies including the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Institute of...
's Pickering Medal in 2008 for his work on R.
External links
- Academic unfazed by rock star status, New Zealand Herald article, 10 January 2009
- “simply start over and build something better”, An article by Ross Ihaka, on how RR (programming language)R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software, and R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis....
might not be able to provide the base that will be needed for statistical computation in the future.