The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) was founded during the 41st Session of the International Statistical Institute

International Statistical Institute

The International Statistical Institute is a professional association of statisticians. The Institut International de Statistique or International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 although there had been international congresses from 1853.. The Institute publishes a variety of books and...

 (ISI) in 1977, as a Section of the ISI.

The objectives of the Association are to foster world-wide interest in effective statistical computing and to exchange technical knowledge through international contacts and meetings between statisticians, computing professionals, organizations, institutions, governments and the general public.

The Association is affiliated with the International Federation for Information Processing

International Federation for Information Processing

The International Federation for Information Processing is an umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information technology. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with offices in Laxenburg, Austria...

 (IFIP). It publishes the journal called "Computational Statistics & Data Analysis"

Past presidents were

• Mervin E. Muller (USA) 1977-1979
• Sir Maurice Kendall
  Maurice Kendall
  Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him.-Education and early life:...
  
   (UK) and Wilfried J. Dixon (USA) 1979-1981
• Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
  Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
  Ramanathan Gnanadesikan is a statistician. He received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina. He does research in data analysis methodologies, especially multivariate techniques including graphical and robust/resistant methods. He is a fellow of AAAS, ASA, IMS and RSS, and Elected Member...
  
   (India) 1981-1983
• Svein Nordbotten (Norway) 1983-1985
• Klaus Neumann (GDR) 1985-1987
• Masashi Okamoto (Japan) 1987-1989
• John M. Chambers
  John Chambers (programmer)
  John M. Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language project. He was awarded the 1998 ACM Software System Award for developing S...
  
   (USA) 1989-1991
• Norbert Victor (Germany) 1991-1993
• Natale Carlo Lauro (Italy) 1993-1995
• Murray A. Cameron (Australia) 1995-1997
• Edward J. Wegman
  Edward Wegman
  Edward Wegman is a statistician, a statistics professor at George Mason University, and past chair of the National Research Council’s Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Senior...
  
  (USA) 1997-1999
• Lutz Edler (Germany) 1999-2001
• Jae C. Lee (Korea) 2001-2003
• Stanley P. Azen (USA) 2003-2005
• Gilbert Saporta (France) 2005-2007
• Jaromir Antoch (France) 2007-2009

Present president: Yutaka Tanaka

External links

• International Association for Statistical Computing IASC home page
• Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Journal home page