John Chambers (statistician)

John Chambers
Born
John McKinley Chambers
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (BSc)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Known forR programming language
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical computing
Institutions
Websitestatweb.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]

  1. ^ "ACM honors Dr. John M. Chambers of Bell Labs with the 1998 ACM Software System Award for creating "S System" software". Association for Computing Machinery. September 21, 2008. Archived from the original on August 27, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2021.