Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on the Interface

The 14th Symposium on the Interface continued the well-established tradition of previous symposia in providinq a forum for the interchanqe of ideas of common concern to statisticians and computer scientists. We chose to convene between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute~s academic sessions, on July 5-7, 1982, so that that the excellent facilities at RPI could be totally dedicated to the Symposium. A convivial mixer held on July 5 in the Great Hall of the Communications Center greeted early conference arrivals and late registrants. After a few welcoming remarks on the morning of July 6, the conference was excitedly launched by John Tukey~s keynote address nAnother Look at the Future." Thirten workshop sessions run in parallel in four groups filled the remainder of the two days. The conferees~ attentions were also captured by the nineteen poster sessions and several software demonstrations carefully interleaved between the workshops. A time period at the end n of each day was also reserved for self-initiated nBirds of a Feather sessions. Several workshop sessions took advantage of the link between RPI~s Voorhees Computing Center, other computing centers, and the RPI Communications Center by incorporating live computer demonstrations in their presentations. Immediately following the Symposium, representatives of the Royal Statistical Society presented an excellent two-day tutorial workshop on GLIM3.