Workshop on Statistics and Information Technology

该奖项为25名参加者提供旅费和当地费用，参加将于1999年9月16日至17日在北卡罗来纳州三角研究园国家情报和安全局大楼举行的为期两天的统计和信息技术公共讲习班。讲习班的目的是让统计人员接触研究人员，研究信息技术方面的问题。 资讯科技的几个重要问题领域将从资讯科技和统计的角度提出，并有充分的机会提问和讨论。 将讨论的主题领域是：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，并在万维网上公布。

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.