John Chambers (statistician)

John Chambers
John Chambers
Born	John McKinley Chambers
Alma mater	University of Toronto (BSc); Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Known for	R programming language
Awards	ACM Software System Award (1998); Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics;
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistical computing
Institutions	Bell Labs (1966–2005); Stanford University (2008–present);
Website	statweb.stanford.edu/~jmc4/

John McKinley Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language project. He was awarded the 1998 ACM Software System Award for developing S.^[1]