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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 21 Mar 1979, p. 13

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, JÂ¥ " d | d A ./ P y | \:\‘\ + '. ‘ Jn ,.-&imw;.’gzté;’i‘ id i IIHH ‘“"}t"‘-m& 2 ' p e "lli m _ w io A '3“ % "syuonald P h aaP onE iiiane aomoer n O m 5. â€"â€" 12 f first mobile ___â€" SALE_| »â€"â€" Westmount Place Statisticians (those math specialists who manipulate reams of data to learn more about What‘s going on in the world and in our own lives) and computer scientists (the people who get comâ€" puters to do what the statisâ€" ticians want done) will come together on the Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo campus May 10â€"11, at the ‘"Computer Science and Statistics: 12th lAnnual Symposium on the Interface,‘‘ being organized Statisticsâ€"computer conference to be held at UW an out of this world multiâ€"media experience see «+THE SPECTACULAR BIRTH OF A STAR! smm 4& YOUR ZODIAC SIGN ROTATING IN THE HEAVENS! *A METEOR SHOWER IN ALL ITS DAZZLâ€" ING GLORY! by Dr. Jane F. Gentleman, UW statistics professor who is also keenly interested in computers. Up to 500 are expected, a majority of whom will be from the United States. Though this is the 12th conâ€" secutive year the groups have met together to discuss mutual problems it is the first time the event has ever been held in Canada. Preâ€" vious conferences have all been in the United States, x dome K m domt miss the shows continuous wed. to fri., 11 a.m. â€" 9:30 p.m., sat. 11 a.m. â€" 6 p.m. WESTMOUNT PLACE SHOPPING CENTRE mostly in the far west. Dr. Gentleman says both statisticians‘ and computer scientists will be at the symâ€" posium, as well as people in diverse fields in which the computer is used or in which data are analysed. Financial support for the conference is coming from UW, the Naâ€" tural Sciences and En gineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Honâ€" eywell Information Systems Canada and the U.S. Office mon .. tues. & sat. 9:30 to 6:00 e be -lp-'nl will er be Prof. David K Cox. FRS, He is a world renowned staâ€" tistician and the author of a number of books. Other disâ€" tinguished computer scientists or statisticians who will beâ€"participating will include: Prof. Gene Golub, Stanford University ; Prof. Harry Smith, Mount Sinai Medical Cénter, New York; _ Prof. _ Norman March WESTMOUNT ROAD AT ERB * WATERLOO Draper, University of Wisâ€" consin and Martin B. Wilk, director of corporate reâ€" search, American Tele phone and Telegraph. of Inquiry into Confidenâ€" tiality of Health Records in Ontario, will participate in a workshop dealing with the preservation of confidenâ€" tiality in the collection and handling of statistical data. _ The Hon. Mr. Justice Horace Krever, Commisâ€" , Wednesday, March 21, 1979 â€" Page 13 Gordon Sande of StatsCan organized this session. _ The conference will conâ€" vene in UW‘s theatre of the arts with workshop sessions also in the arts lecture hall and live computer demonâ€" strations in the mathemaâ€" tics and computer building. Lo. ie Walk it to me‘ Walk a hlock.Today.

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