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	John Tukey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 - July 26, 2000) was a statistician.
		Born New Bedford, Massachusetts, Tukey obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1936 and a Master of Science degree in chemistry in 1937 from Brown University before moving to Princeton University to study for his doctorate in mathematics.
		Retiring in 1985, Tukey died in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Tukey (289 words)

	John Wilder Tukey
		J. Tukey was born on July 16, 1915, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
		Tukey was also the recipient of many awards in his field.
		Tukey is credited with the invention of many methods, both graphical and numerical, that are extremely effective in statistical applications.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~sungurea/introstat/history/w98/Tukey.html (956 words)

	Princeton - News - Statistician John W. Tukey dies
		Among Tukey's most far-reaching contributions was his development of techniques for "robust analysis," an approach to statistics that guards against wrong answers in situations where a randomly chosen sample of data happens to poorly represent the rest of the data set.
		Tukey also pioneered approaches to exploratory data analysis, developing graphing and plotting methods that are fixtures of introductory statistics texts, and authored many publications on time series analysis and other aspects of digital signal processing that have become central to modern engineering and science.
		Tukey also was instrumental in creating a citation index for statistical literature and was known for carrying publication lists with him and working out the complexities of cross-references in his spare time.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/news/00/q3/0727-tukey.htm (913 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		John Wilder Tukey, National Medal of science winner and the statistician who coined the word "software" died July 26,2000 in New Brunswick, NJ at the age of 85.
		Tukey received his first degree, a bachelor in chemistry in 1936,and by the age of 24 held 3 graduate degrees: 1 in chemistry from Brown, and 2 graduate degrees in mathematics from Princeton.
		Tukey never left Princeton, assuming first a teaching position and by the age of 35 a full professorship at the university.
	obits.com /tukeyjohn.htm (470 words)

	Physics Today July 2001
		John Wilder Tukey, Donner Professor Emeritus of Science at Princeton University and one of the most important contributors to the field of statistics, died 26 July 2000 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, following a heart attack.
		Born on 16 June 1915 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Tukey received an ScB in chemistry (1936) and an ScM in chemistry (1937) from Brown University and an MA in mathematics (1938) and a PhD in mathematics (1939) from Princeton University.
		Tukey is credited with the first printed use of the word "software" to refer to computer programs; he observed that the software might well prove to become more valuable than the hardware.
	www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-54/iss-7/p80.html (812 words)

	BAM: Classes, September / October, 2000
		tukey was one of the nation's most influential statisticians, but he will not be remembered for his number theories and computational models.
		Tukey's great contribution was to language: he was the man who coined the words software and bit.
		Tukey, 85, died of a heart attack on July 26 in New Brunswick, N.J. A 1973 National Medal of Science winner, he retired in 1985 as associate executive director of information research at ATandT's Bell Laboratories and as Donner Professor of Science and professor of statistics at Princeton.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/01/11-00/classes.farewell.html (1068 words)

	Memories of John Tukey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		Tukey, who seemed to thrive on half a dozen glasses of skim milk for lunch, was the first human parallel processor I have known: during staff meetings he would regularly work out some statistical problem while hardly ever missing a word said during the discussion.
		John Tukey with all his fame, volunteered his expertise, and without calculators, computers or any fancy technology, sat on a chair at the designated spot on Route 206 and with a pad of paper and a pencil counted the cars and trucks as they traveled past.
		John was extremely generous with his ideas as witnessed by the long list of his Ph.D. students (more than 50) that he referred to as "his children" as well as "his grandchildren" (his students' students).
	stat.bell-labs.com /who/tukey/tributes.html (5298 words)

	Tukey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		John Tukey's parents, Ralph H Tukey and Adah M Tukey, recognised that John had great potential while he was still only a child, so they arranged for him to be educated at home rather than in school.
		In fact it was John's mother Adah who undertook most of the teaching of her son since, as a married woman, she was prohibited from working as a full-time teacher in Massachusetts at that time.
		Tukey's research was supervised by Lefschetz and he received his doctorate in 1939 for a dissertation Denumerability in topology which was published in 1940 as Convergence and uniformity in topology.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Tukey.html (1484 words)

	Kohler Biographies
		John Wilder Tukey was born in New Bedford, a fishing town on the southern coast of Massachusetts.
		So she started a private tutoring business and made John her prize pupil instead of sending him to public school where, she thought, "he would only get lazy." Eventually, John graduated from nearby Brown University with a degree in chemistry, followed by a graduate degree in mathematics from Princeton.
		John Tukey soon became one of the most influential statisticians of the late 20th century.
	www.swlearning.com /quant/kohler/stat/biographical_sketches/bio15.1.html (638 words)

	John Tukey - Wikipédia
		John Wilder Tukey (16 juin, 1915 - 26 juillet, 2000) était un statisticien.
		Né à New Bedford, Massachusetts, Tukey obtint une maîtrise en chimie de l'Université Brown avant de déménager à l'Université Princeton en 1937 pour étudier pour son doctorat en mathématiques.
		Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Tukey travailla au Bureau de Recherche sur le Contrôle du Feu et collabora avec Samuel Wilks et William Cochran.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Tukey (273 words)

	Tukey
		John Tukey's parents recognised that he had great potential while he was still only a child so the arranged for him to be educated at home rather than in school.
		Tukey's first major contribution to statistics was with his introduction of modern techniques for the estimation of spectra of time series.
		Tukey also made substantial contributions to the analysis of variance and the problem of making simultaneous inferences about a set of parameter values from a single experiment.
	www.uvm.edu /~rsingle/stats/Tukey.html (534 words)

	John Tukey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 - July 26, 2000) was a (Someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)) statistician.
		Retiring in 1985, Tukey died in (Click link for more info and facts about New Brunswick, New Jersey) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
		Though he believed in the utility of separating the two types of analysis, he pointed out that sometimes, especially in (The sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena) natural science, this was problematic and termed such situations (Click link for more info and facts about uncomfortable science) uncomfortable science.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_tukey.htm (249 words)

	John Tukey: Obituaries
		John W. Tukey *39, professor, emeritus, of statistics, died July 25 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, of a heart attack.
		Tukey is considered one of the most important contributors to modern statistics, especially of concepts that were central to the creation of telecommunications technology.
		Tukey received the National Medal of Science in 1973 and an honorary doctorate from Princeton in 1998.
	www34.homepage.villanova.edu /robert.jantzen/princeton_math/pmcxtukey.htm (1406 words)

	The Valley of the Shadow: The Freedmen's Bureau
		Frederick Tukey was a Bureau agent in Augusta County from January-April 1867.
		He testifies to Tukey's character and reputation among the local population and suggests that the accusations against Tukey are the product of a conspiracy on the part of George Cook and George Graham.
		Dews testifies to Tukey's character and comments on what he consideres to be the suspicious involvement of George Graham of the Burial Corps in the matter.
	valley.vcdh.virginia.edu /fbureau/bureau_topics_Tukey.html (808 words)

	John Tukey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		Tukey was born on July 16, 1915, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
		John was schooled at home by his parents who were teachers.
		As you can see, John Wilder Tukey is an extremely bright, ambitious man. He has definitely made many valuable contributions to the field of statistics.
	www.edu.pe.ca /kish/Grassroots/math/tukey.htm (302 words)

	Obituary: John W. Tukey
		John Wilder Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years, died on July 26.
		Well known to Statisticians, Tukey's specific contributions include the Box-and-Whisker Plot, the Stem-and-Leaf Diagram, and Tukey's Paired Comparisons.
		In a 1958 article in American mathematical monthly, Tukey saw that "software", as he called it, was gaining prominence.
	www.smb.org /newsletter/13.3/tukey.shtml (125 words)

	Memories of John W. Tukey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		John W. Tukey made unparalleled contributions to statistics and to science in general, during a long career at Bell Labs and Princeton University, and as consultant to government and industry.
		John Tukey died on July 26, 2000 but his influence and contributions will continue.
		This web site is dedicated to gathering recollections and reflections on John Tukey from those who knew him and from those who would like to comment on his life or work.
	stat.bell-labs.com /who/tukey (222 words)

	Quiet Contributor: The Civic Career and Times of John W. Tukey, F. R. Anscombe
		Across 60 years, John W. Tukey contributed to the advancement of democracy, peace and industry via development, application and teaching of knowledge.
		As computer and communication pioneer, Tukey collaborated with von Neumann, Shannon and Pierce; coined "bit'' and "software''; applied statistical time series methods to processing signals; and recognized the usefulness of fast Fourier transform algorithms to digital processing of correlated data.
		Tukey advised government and industry regarding environmental quality, educational testing, the census, pharmaceutical efficacy, manufacturing quality and technologies for gathering intelligence.
	projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.ss/1076102417 (259 words)

	John Tukey
		John Wilder Tukey was born on 16 June 1915 in Massachusetts, U.S.A. He attended Brown University until 1937 and then obtained a PhD in mathematics at Princeton University.
		He is largely responsible for the development of Exploratory Data Analysis, although his contributions are found in many areas of statistics.
		The Practice of Data Analysis : Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey by John Wilder Tukey(Editor), et al.
	arts.anu.edu.au /arcworld/resources/papers/courses/2026tukey.htm (278 words)

	Brillinger, D.R., Fernholz, L.T., Morgenthaler, S., eds.: The Practice of Data Analysis: Essays in Honor of John W. ...
		The book honors John W. Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
		Contributors, some of them Tukey's former students, use his general theoretical work and his specific contributions to Exploratory Data Analysis as the point of departure for their papers.
		Tukey may be best known for coining the common computer term "bit," for binary digit, but his broader work has revolutionized the way statisticians think about and analyze sets of data.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/6332.html (327 words)

	Math Awareness Month 2000: John Tukey (People/Tukey) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		John Tukey is a pioneer in exploratory data analysis.
		John Tukey and his colleagues studied the "point clouds" that arise in such situations and manipulated them on a computer screen until patterns emerged that indicated relationships among different variables.
		Mathematics Awareness Month is sponsored each year by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics to recognize the importance of mathematics through written materials and an accompanying poster that highlight mathematical developments and applications in a particular area.
	www.mathaware.org /mam/00/master/people/tukey/index.html (230 words)

	Bob Abelson Obituary
		He was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, and then worked with John Tukey and Silvan Tomkins at Princeton, where he received his Ph.D. in 1953.
		He helped John Tukey develop a system, first used by NBC in 1962, for projecting the outcome of elections (an early application of empirical Bayesian methods that are now widely used for making small area estimates), and served as statistical consultant for NBC Election News in 1964, 1968, and 1976.
		He was instrumental in the design of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, served on the NAEP Advisory Panel, and co-authored two reports on the results of this major study in 1970 and 1971.
	www.apa.org /science/psa/abelson_prnt.html (1591 words)

	John W. Tukey's work on time series and spectrum analysis, David R. Brillinger
		The contributions of John W. Tukey to time series analysis, particularly spectrum analysis, are reviewed and discussed.
		Much of Tukey's early work on spectrum analysis remained unpublished for many years, but the 1959 book by Blackman and Tukey made his approach accessible to a wide audience.
		The time series work of Tukey and others led to the appearance of kernel and nonparametric estimation in mainstream statistics and to the recognition of the consequent difficulties arising in naive uses of the techniques.
	projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/euclid.aos/1043351248 (1140 words)

	References for Tukey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		Curriculum vitae of John Wilder Tukey, in The practice of data analysis, Princeton, NJ, 1995 (Princeton, NJ, 1997), 9-15.
		L T Fernholz, A conversation with John W Tukey, in The practice of data analysis, Princeton, NJ, 1995 (Princeton, NJ, 1997), 26-45.
		P McCullagh, John Wilder Tukey, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 49 (2003), 538-559.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/References/Tukey.html (366 words)

	IDblog: Ode to John Tukey
		Peter brings us this link to Michael's Gallery of Data Visualization, which he dedicates to John W. Tukey.
		Tukey is an important figure for information designers (particularly those who are interested in information graphics).
		In fact, Tufte credits Tukey as the inspiration for what later became his first book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information).
	www.idblog.org /archives/000130.html (130 words)

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