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Ani Adhikari and Philip Stark are teaching a massive open online course (mooc) starting today. Enrollment: 50,707 as of 2/28/2013!

For more details, see the course page.

The Simons institute at UC Berkeley is organizing a program on Big Data in Fall 2013. More details are here.

Springer has just published the selected works of Peter Bickel. [Springerlink] [Springer] [Amazon]

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has established the Blackwell Lecture, a newly named lecture honoring Prof. David Blackwell. The lecture will be given at the IMS annual meeting approximately once every three years, starting in 2014.

Prof. Terry Speed has won the 2012 Victoria Prize in Australia.

We invite applications for a position in all areas of Probability and Statistics beginning July 1, 2013. Position #1742 is at the tenure-track level (Assistant Professor). We will consider strong candidates in any area of probability or theoretical, applied, or computational statistics. Candidates with ABD ("all but PhD degree") status will be considered, but the successful candidate must finish the PhD within one year of their appointment.

Berkeley statisticians played a key role in the large ENCODE consortium that determined the function of what was thought to be "junk" DNA in the human genome. Led by Peter Bickel, the statisticians provided several of the tools biologists needed to uncover the functional roles of DNA outside protein coding genes.

Springer has just published the "Selected Works of Terry Speed", edited by Sandrine Dudoit.

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