William S. Cleveland

1943 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

educated at: Princeton University, Yale University

occupation: scientist

award received: Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression and local regression. He is remembered as one of the developers of the S programming language. Source: Wikipedia (en)