Workshop on Statistics and Information Technology

该奖项将于1999年9月16日至17日在北卡罗来纳州研究三角公园的NISS大楼举行，为参加为期两天的统计和信息技术公开工作坊的25名参与者提供旅费和当地费用。讲习班的目的是让统计人员接触研究人员并研究信息技术方面的问题。将从信息技术和统计的角度介绍信息技术的几个重要问题领域，并有充分的机会提出问题和进行讨论。将讨论的主题领域包括：数字政府、互联网流量测量和分析、软件开发、数据/模型集成和人机交互。会议结束后不久，将编写一份讲习班报告，并在万维网上提供。

This award provides travel support and local expenses for 25 participants of a two-day public workshop on Statistics and information technology (IT), to be held on September 16-17, 1999, at the NISS building in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The purpose of the workshop is to expose statisticians to researchers and to research problems in information technology. Several important problem areas in information technology will be presented from the perspectives of both IT and Statistics, with ample opportunity for questions and discussion. The topic areas to be discussed are: digital government, Internet traffic measurement and analysis, software development, data/model integration, and human-computer interaction. A workshop report will be prepared and made available over the World Wide Web shortly after the conference.