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	Jacob Wolfowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the mid-1930s, Wolfowitz began his career as high-school mathematics teacher and continued teaching until 1942 when he received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from New York University.
		Wolfowitz died of a heart attack in Tampa, Florida, where he was a professor at the University of South Florida.
		Wolfowitz' main contributions were in the field of statistical decision theory, non-parametric statistics, and sequential analysis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob_Wolfowitz (191 words)

	Paul Wolfowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacob Wolfowitz took his family with him when he taught sabbatical semesters at UCLA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in 1957, at the age of fourteen, Wolfowitz spent a year living in Israel while his father was teaching at Haifa University; Wolfowitz’s sister would later emigrate permanently to Israel.
		Wolfowitz claims that this policy did not deviate from that lain out by Kirkpatrick in her 1979 article as the “necessary disciplines and habits” she wrote of were already in place.
		Wolfowitz was reportedly distraught by the administrations decision to stop short of removing Saddam Hussein and the betrayal of the Kurdish and Shiite revolutionaries encouraged to rise up against their dictator that this policy entailed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz (4397 words)

	Paul Wolfowitz
		Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943), son of the statistician/information theorist Jacob Wolfowitz, is an American political advisor and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense.
		Wolfowitz is currently United States Deputy Secretary of Defense—second in charge of the defense department, under the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
		Wolfowitz has acknowledged the sufferings of the Palestinian people in their conflict with Israel, and in 2002 was heckled for expressing such views at a pro-Israel rally.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paul_wolfowitz.html (444 words)

	Jacob Wolfowitz, March 19, 1910–July 16, 1981 \| By Shelemyahu Zacks \| Biographical Memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacob Wolfowitz was born in Poland on March 19, 1910.
		Wolfowitz developed the minimum distance method (1957) for estimating parameters or functionals of distributions by minimizing the distance between the empirical distribution and the family of distributions for the model under consideration.
		Wolfowitz's research on the asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator, with the collaboration of Weiss, led to the development (1969) of maximum probability estimators.
	stills.nap.edu /html/biomems/jwolfowitz.html (2625 words)

	Wolfowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacob Wolfowitz's father emigrated to the USA in 1914 and Jacob joined him in 1920 when he was ten years old.
		Wolfowitz's earliest interest was nonparametric inference and the joint paper we just mentioned presents ways of calculating confidence intervals which are not necessarily of fixed width, on a distribution function F based on the empiric independent identically distributed observations on F.
		Wald and Wolfowitz were both attached to the Statistical Research Group at Columbia and they led the research project to develop a theory for sequential analysis.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Wolfowitz.html (1026 words)

	War and Piece:
		Wolfowitz's father, Jacob Wolfowitz, was a respected professor of statistics at Cornell while Paul studied there, and relations between the elder Wolfowitz and Bloom, who had captured the imagination of his son, were tense, in part because the father wanted the son to stay in mathematics and away from the liberal arts.
		Wolfowitz's doctoral thesis amounted to an extended argument against the idea of the nuclear-powered desalting stations, on grounds that the benefits were exaggerated and the risks of nuclear proliferation were too great.
		Wolfowitz specifically argued against an Israeli nuclear waepons..."Israeli nuclear weapons would push the Arabs into a desperate attempt to acquire nuclear weapons, if not from the Soviet Union, then at a later date from China or on their own." Of course, in the early 1970s, after Wolfowitz's dissertation was written, Israel did develop nuclear weapons.
	www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/000571.html (1085 words)

	Paul Wolfowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfowitz began by joking that his father, a noted mathematician, would have been proud to see him in this academic setting, even as he was saddened that the younger Wolfowitz had pursued the political, rather than the “real,” sciences.
		Wolfowitz, who is sixty, has served in the Administrations of six Presidents, yet he is still regarded by many in Washington with a considerable measure of puzzlement.
		Wolfowitz’s critics accuse him of naïveté, of setting out a vision that fails to consider fully the complex and unpredictable regional dynamics of tribal loyalties, honor, revenge, and Arab pride in Iraq and in the region generally.
	clublet.com /c/c/why?PaulWolfowitz (1964 words)

	Biography of Paul Wolfowitz : Article from California-Recall.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfowitz is currently United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and second in charge of the defense department, under the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
		Wolfowitz received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University (1965) in mathematics, and a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago (1972).
		Despite his vocal and hawkish support for the state of Israel, Wolfowitz is also one of the few neo-conservatives to have endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state, and to have acknowledged the sufferings of the Palestinian people in their conflict with Israel.
	www.california-recall.com /articles/article-155011084876451.html (997 words)

	Biography of Paul Wolfowitz
		Wolfowitz's father, Jacob, was a mathematician, who emigrated from Warsaw to New York in 1920.
		After Cornell, Wolfowitz gained a PhD in political science at the University of Chicago, where he was influenced by Albert Wohlstetter, a military thinker whose credo was to prioritise sophisticated arms technology in America's international relations.
		Wolfowitz taught political science at Yale and from 1994 to 2001 he served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University.
	www.biogs.com /famous/wolfowitz.html (503 words)

	Paul Wolfowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfowitz was excused military service in the Vietnam War in order to pursue his academic studies, this has lead critics to dub him as a chickenhawk.
		Wolfowitz’s early forays into politics as an intern at the Bureau of the Budget and a member of the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defence Policy were just the beginning of a long and distinguished political career.
		Wolfowitz famously broke from the official line by denouncing the Reagan administration’s support for the Saddam Hussein in his conflict with Iran, but was less vocal in his opposition to another favored strongman.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Paul-Wolfowitz.htm (2401 words)

	Paul Dundes Wolfowitz - SourceWatch
		Wolfowitz, considered to be one of the most prominent and "hawkish" of the neo-conservatives, is the principal author of the "Wolfowitz doctrine", also known as the Bush doctrine.
		Wolfowitz taught from 1970-1973 at the Yale University (the homeland of Skull and Bones) and in 1981 he taught at John Hopkins University.
		Wolfowitz is a strong supporter of the theories of Laurie Mylroie, a controversial academic and former fellow of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, who wrote a book that links the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to Saddam Hussein.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Paul_Wolfowitz (2631 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfowitz had pillaged the Pentagon library for a copy of “Courier from Warsaw,” the memoir of Jan Nowak, a Catholic who was among the first Warsaw-uprising witnesses to reach the West and testify to the Nazi horrors.
		Wolfowitz told me that he had never before visited the memorials, and that, other than a quick stopover, this was his first trip to Poland, even though his father, Jacob Wolfowitz, had been born in Warsaw.
		Wolfowitz said that he was astonished by the argument of some war critics that, with no imminent threat from Iraq, the overturning of Saddam was unwarranted—an argument that he believes implicitly accepts Saddam’s brutality.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?041101fa_fact (5703 words)

	The Cornell Review: Cornell Alumni worth remembering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His father, Jacob Wolfowitz, was for many years a professor in the math department here.
		Wolfowitz is doubtless the most famous holder of the office: he is widely regarded as the chief architect of American strategy in the War on Terror, and one of the chief advocates of the Iraq war.
		Throughout his career, Wolfowitz has held to a steadfast belief in the importance of freedom and democracy: This may not endear him to the left, but in future years, he will likely be remembered as instrumental in the American triumphs of the early 21st century.
	www.cornellreview.org /viewart.cgi?num=488 (864 words)

	Paul Wolfowitz
		Paul Wolfowitz is a prominent and well-connected conservative hawk who was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld during the George W. Bush administration.
		Wolfowitz was of fighting age during the Vietnam War, but studied mathematics at Cornell University, which got him a deferment from the draft.
		During the early 1970s, Wolfowitz worked at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and beginning in 1977 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs, where he was involved in establishing would later became the US military central command.
	www.nndb.com /people/290/000023221 (486 words)

	Special Report
		Wolfowitz was born in New York City in 1943 to Jewish parents, Lillian Dundes and Jacob Wolfowitz, a Cornell math professor, who emigrated from Warsaw in 1920.
		Wolfowitz’ knack for the unexpected and his eagerness to deploy American forces earned him a reputation for both prescience and nuttiness, in the words of Slate magazine’s David Plotz.
		The “Wolfowitz Cabal” is now determined to push the U.S. in the same direction as Israel’s most dangerous right-wing policy and take on as an enemy every Islamic nation Israel perceives as a threat.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/april03/0304014.html (2380 words)

	CAM Cover Story
		Laura Wolfowitz '62 was already on campus, a biology major who broke the Telluride gender barrier in 1961 and became the first female resident of the house since its founding in 1910.
		Wolfowitz's stature only grew when he began dating freshman Clare Selgin, an anthropology major interested in Indonesian dance who drove a VW and was one of the early handful of women residents.
		Often, Jack Wolfowitz and Manougian, born to Armenian immigrants, would reflect ruefully on the world's troubles--the ethnic strife that bedeviled their native countries earlier in the century, the smoldering Israeli-Palestinian issue, the incalculable horrors of war and genocide that had dogged human history.
	cornell-magazine.cornell.edu /Archive/2004Julaug/features/Feature.html (4537 words)

	US Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz to be World Bank President
		Wolfowitz's nomination needs the approval of all of the World Bank's member countries, which is expected to be a formality.
		Wolfowitz is a controversial choice because of his identification as a high profile advocate of the invasion of Iraq.
		Wolfowitz has been nominated by the US President, George W. Bush, as the candidate to the Presidency of the World Bank, a key actor in Development.
	www.finfacts.ie /irelandbusinessnews/publish/printer_1000906.shtml (737 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Wolfowitz’s purpose in raising the issue is to illustrate the uncertain nature of intelligence analysis.
		Wolfowitz read the estimate, but he was struck, he says, more by a cover letter that accompanied it.
		Wolfowitz, noting that American forces are glad to have the armored-tank protection for themselves, has said that he thinks the Iraqis will get at least a mechanized brigade fairly soon.
	www.masnet.org /articleinterest.asp?id=1821 (5619 words)

	Uncompromising journalism or just more spin \| Independent World Television
		Jacob Wolfowitz took his family with him when he taught sabbatical semesters at UCLA and the University of Illinois, and in 1957, at the age of 14, Wolfowitz spent a year living in Israel while his father was teaching at Haifa University; Wolfowitz’s sister would later emigrate permanently to Israel.
		Wolfowitz was excused from military service in the Vietnam War through student deferments in order to pursue his academic studies, this has lead critics to dub him as a chickenhawk.
		Wolfowitz took this opportunity to re-orientate the administration’s policy, stating in an April 15th 1985 article in The Wall Street Journal that; The best antidote to Communism is democracy.
	www.iwtnews.com /node/1291 (14458 words)

	Search Tuna Report for paul wolfowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfowitz basically authored a doctrine of American hegemony, says historian and foreign policy expert John Lewis Gaddis, a doctrine in which the United States would seek to maintain the position that it came out of the Cold War with, at which there were no obvious or plausible challengers to the United States....
		Wolfowitz received his AB degree in mathematics and chemistry from Cornell University in 1965, and earned an MA and Ph.D from the University of Chicago in political science and economics....
		Wolfowitz's achievements as a warmonger may say little about his views on international development, but his record on Iraq is one of miscalculation and exaggeration....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/588.html (2556 words)

	Active Skim View of: Jacob Wolfowitz
		In 1945 Wolfowitz moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as associate
		Wolfowitz characterized Bayes solutions to sequential decision problems, which were mentioned in the previous section.
		Wolfowitz’s research on the asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator, with the collaboration of Weiss, led to the development (1969)
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309086981&chap=372-384 (348 words)

	Drivel From the Far Side (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The BBC takes a closer look at President Bush's appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank.
		Apparently, according to the author, Bush is trying to spread the gospel of his neo-conservative foreign policy.
		Wolfowitz is the so-called neo-con hawk who pushed hard for the Iraq war.
	www.livejournal.com /users/sephiroth9611 (3234 words)

	Paul Wolfowitz - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943), is a Jewish-American academic and American political figure.
		Wolfowitz is the son of Jacob Wolfowitz, a Cornell University mathematician.
		Paul Wolfowitz is well-known for a large number of affiliations which influential organisations:
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Paul_Wolfowitz (126 words)

	References for Wolfowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		R Ahlswede, Jacob Wolfowitz (1910-1981), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 28 (5) (1982), 687-690.
		L Weiss, Personal reminiscences of Jack Wolfowitz, in The frontiers of modern statistical inference procedures, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1982 (Columbus, OH, 1985), 5-6.
		L Weiss, Lionel The research of Jack Wolfowitz, in The frontiers of modern statistical inference procedures, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1982 (Columbus, OH, 1985), 1-4.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Printref/Wolfowitz.html (81 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wisse, Ruth R. and Fisher, Eugene J. and Wistrich, Robert S. and Alexander, Edward and Weigel, George and Johnson, Gregory R. and Muller, James W. and Glasner, David and Klass, Rosanne and Richman, Sheldon L. and Benjamini, Jacob and Wolfowitz, Clare
		...CLARE WOLFOWITZ Chevy Chase, Maryland GEORGE WEIGEL writes: In her thoughtful and provocative letter, Clare Wolfowitz seems to suggest that the Jewish concept of "chosenness" carries with it no public consequences...
		...Wolfowitz correctly, she seems to argue that the current rash of anti-Catholic agitation is somehow related to untoward forms of ecclesiastical politicking...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V95I1P4-1.htm (11273 words)

	School of Industrial and Systems Engineering ::School of Industrial and Systems Engineering - Craig Tovey
		Tovey's principal research and teaching activities are in optimization, probabilistic analysis, and natural systems.
		He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and the 1989 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for research in heuristics.
		He was granted a Senior Research Associateship from the National Research Council in 1990, and was named an Institute Fellow at Georgia Tech in 1994.
	www.isye.gatech.edu /faculty/Craig_Tovey (207 words)

	Statistics.com Courses - Resampling: And Exact Statistical Methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He is a past President of the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association and is currently the elected chair for the Sports Statistics Section Program for the Joint Statistical Meetings in 2002.
		In 1983, Dr. Chernick was awarded the Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for the best theoretical paper for 1982 in the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences.
		Please fill out this form to reserve a place in this course.
	www.statistics.com /content/courses/resamp.html (560 words)

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