John Chambers (statistician)


John McKinley Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language project. He was awarded the 1998 ACM Software System Award for developing S. He donated his prize money to the American Statistical Association to endow an award for novel statistical software.
Chambers is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
He was a Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Harvard University.