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Jerome Friedman Receives ACM SIGKDD's 2002 Innovation Award


Jerome H. Friedman

Stanford University
Department of Statistics
Co-Founder, California Statistical Software, Inc.


Jerry Friedman, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University, co-creator of CART®, and creator of MARS® and TreeNet® was awarded the SIGKDD 2002 Innovation award for his far-reaching and profound contributions to data mining technology.

The ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award is the premiere technical award in the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery field, a "Nobel Prize" of data mining, the award is given to one individual or one group who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced the direction of research and development in the field.

For the full text of the extensive award citation, click here.