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PKP Chapter Members in the News Gil Alterovitz (senior, ECE) was recently awarded Motorola's "Intellectual Property Award" as one of the co-inventors of a new communication method for facilitating digital signal processing with applications in speech processing. The invention was based on work done at Motorola's Speech Technology Laboratory (Boynton Beach, Florida) in the summer of 1996. Chris Andrews (Ph.D. Statistics, 1997) is now at UC Berkeley on a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Post Doctoral Fellowship. He is working with Nick Jewell and Mark van der Laan on "Locally Efficient Estimation with Current Status Data." David Betts (assistant professor in the Drama School and Phi Kappa Phi CMU chapter treasurer) designed the lights for this past summer's Showcase of New Plays. Scott Farrow (senior economist and adjunct professor, Heinz School) has been appointed editor, Environmental Statistics Section, Historical Statistics of the U.S. Farrow also received a Senior Fellowship for 1998 at The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Policy Center. In July, Stephen Fienberg (Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and former president of the CMU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi) was elected as President Elect of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. And, with others at Carnegie Mellon, Fienberg had a new book published that presents a scientific response to Herrnstein and Murray's bestseller, The Bell Curve. The book is entitled Intelligence, Genes and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve (Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick and Kathryn Roeder, editors; Copernicus, 1997). The book is available in a special paperback edition from local bookstores and via the WWW. Fienberg's sabbatical, which began in January with six months in the Netherlands, is scheduled to end this December. Professor of French Barbara Freed's research on the artists of the Riviera was written up in the Nov. 7 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her book on the subject, Artists and Their Museums on the Riviera, will be released in early 1998. Drama School alumnus (1997) Steven Haworth's play "Two Tribes" was performed in the Drama School's Showcase of New Plays this summer. Oliver Schulte (Ph.D. Philosophy, 1997) is now a faculty member at the University of Alberta. Teddy Seidenfeld (professor of philosophy and statistics) is spending the fall term at the London School of Economics. He is listed as a "Distinguished Visiting Professor" and is the guest of the LSE's STICERD (Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines) Center. Seidenfeld is working with colleagues in the Mathematics Department and in the Philosophy Department there. |