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Edwin T. Jaynes International Center for Bayesian Methods and Maximum Entropy |
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The Edwin T. Jaynes International Center for Bayesian Methods and Maximum Entropy is an international research center designed to promote statistical methods in science and engineering. The Center was established at Boise State University in July, 2000. The $1 million donation the Center currently operates on is from John Parker Burg, a retired scientist and entrepreneur from Cupertino, California. Burg earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in geophysics and has been involved in oil seismic exploration throughout his career. The funding for the center became available when Microsoft purchased Entropic Inc., an international computer software firm specializing in voice synthesizing that was co-founded by Burg and John E. Shore. Boise State University's College of Engineering is housing the center, which is the first of its kind in the world. Part of the center's function will be to help pay for an annual international conference on Bayesian methods. The late Edwin T. Jaynes, for whom the center is named, was a pioneer in expanding Bayesian and maximum entropy methods to a broad range of sciences. Jaynes was a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis.
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