Jerry Friedman, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University, co-creator
of CART(R), and creator of MARS(R) and TreeNet(tm) was awarded the
SIGKDD 2002 Innovation award for his far reaching and profound
contributions to data mining technology.

The ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award is the premiere technical award in Data
Mining and Knowledge Discovery field, a "Nobel Prize" of data mining,
and is given to one individual or one group who has made significant
technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or
that have significantly influenced direction of research and development
in the field.

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