| Activity | Born (born Isadore Jacob Gudak) London, December 9, 1916
Died Virginia USA, 2009.
Professional Career:
Foreign Office, 1941-45. Worked at Bletchley Park on Ultra (both the Enigma and a Teleprinter
encrypting machine the Schlüsselzusatz SZ40 and 42 which we called Tunny or Fish) as the
main statistician under A. M. Turing, F. R. S., C. H. O. D. Alexander (British Chess
Champion twice), and M. H. A. Newman, F. R. S., in turn.
Lecturer in Mathematics and Electronic Computing, Manchester University, 1945-48.
Government Communications Headquarters, U.K., 1948-59.
Visiting Research Associate Professor, Princeton, 1955 (Summer).
Consultant to IBM for a few weeks, 1958/59. (Information retrieval and evaluation of the
Perceptron.)
Admiralty Research Laboratory, 1959-62.
Consultant, Communications Research Division of the Institute for Defense Analysis, 1962-64.
Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford, and Atlas Computer Laboratory, Science
Research Council, Great Britain, 1964-67.
Professor (research) of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University since July,
1967. University Distinguished Professor since Nov. 19, 1969. Emeritus since July 1994.
Adjunct Professor of the Center for the Study of Science in Society from October 19, 1983.
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy from April 6, 1984.
Degrees:
BA, Cambridge, 1938.
Cambridgeshire Chess Champion, 1939.
Smith’s Prize, Cambridge 1940.
Ph.D., Cambridge (Mathematics), 1941.
M.A., Cambridge, 1943.
Sc.D., Cambridge, 1963.
D.Sc., Oxford, 1964.
Activities and Awards:
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1958.
Communications Committee of the Electronics Research Council of the Ministry of Aviation,
U.K., 1960 to about 1962.
On Editorial Board of Research Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Meerut City), 1963-
74.
Member of the International Statistical Institute, 1964.
Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, on Founding Steering Committee,
1965.
Associate Editor for Minicommunications, Communications in Statistics, Part B: Simulation
and Computation, 1976/77.
Royal Statistical Society, Research Section Committee, 1965-67.
Visiting Professor at the Summer Research Institute, Melbourne University, 1966.
Distinguished Member of the Crypto-Mathematics Institute, 1966.
Working Party on Information Retrieval, Office for Scientific and Technical Information,
Ministry of Education and Science, UK, 1966/67.
Evaluation done for the British Science Research Council of the Department of Machine
Intelligence at Edinburgh, 1967.
On Editorial Board, International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Plenum Press, London and
New York), 1968-76.
On Editorial Board of the Journal of Biological Physics, 1973-
Chairman of the Statistics Section of the Virginia Academy of Science, 1968-69.
President of the Virginia Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1968/69.
On Editorial Advisory board of the Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, since 1970.
A Section Editor instead since 1977.
Horsley Prize (Virginia Academy of Science) (shared with his student R. A. Gaskins), 1972. For
the best scientific paper presented that year at the annual meetings.
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1973.
Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1974 (invited 1970).
Board of the Virginia Cultural Laureate Center, 1976-1981
On Editorial Board of Speculations in Science & Technology, 1978-
On advisory Editorial Board of New Ideas in Psychology,1980.
Senior Consultant for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research, 1981.
Gave the Special Invited Paper on Applications at the Annual Meeting of the American
Statistical Association in Washington, D. C. 1979.
Editor of the “Statistical Discussion Forum” of the J. Statist. Planning & Inference from
September, 1985 to 1990.
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, May 8, 1985.
Honorary Member of the International Statistical Institute, 1990 November 16, 1990.
Gave a ‘President’s Invited Paper’ at the meetings of the American Statistical Association in
Atlanta, Georgia, in August 1991.
Fellow of the Virginia Academy of Science, 1993.
International Order of Merit (IOM), 1993. Awarded by the International Biographical Centre,
Cambridge England.
“Man of the Year”, 1993 (American Biographical Institute, ABI)
“500 Leaders of Influence” (ABI).
“International Cultural Diploma of Honor” (offered by the ABI).
“The Key Award”(ABI).
Computer Pioneer Award (Medal), Computer Soc. of IEEE, 1998.
American Medal of Honor (ABI), 2002.
In The Hundred Most Intriguing People of 2002 (ABI).
Congessional Medal of Excellence, 2004, awarded by the ABI.
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, 2004.
Member of:
American Mathematical Society
British Association for the Advancement of Science
British Society for the Philosophy of Science
Cambridge Philosophical Society
London Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
Mensa
Mind Association
Mu Sigma Rho Honorary Fraternity (Founder Member, 1979)
Pattern Recognition Society, 1973 – 1987
Philosophy of Science Association
Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary Fraternity.
Sources: I J Good's on-line CV http://www.stat.vt.edu/facstaff/IJGoodVitae.pdf |
| PublishedWorks | Selected Publications:
Probability and the Weighing of Evidence (1950), Griffin, London.
Information, Weight of Evidence: The Singularity Between Probability Measures and Signal Detection (1974) with D.B. Osteyee, Springer,
Good, I.J. (1954). “The Population Frequencies of Species and the Estimation of Population Parameters,” Biometrika, 40, 237–264.
Good, I.J. (1956). “On the Estimation of Small Frequencies in Contingency Tables,” J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Series B, 18. 113–124.
Good, I.J., ed. (with the help of A.J. Mayne and John Maynard Smith) (1962). The Scientists Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, London, Heinmann, 1962 (Basic Books, New York, 1963; Paperback, Capricorn Books, New York, 1965.)
Good, I.J. (1963). “Maximum Entropy for Hypothesis Formulation, Especially for Multidimensional Contingency Tables,” Ann. Math. Statist., 34, 911–934.
Good, I.J. (1965). The Estimation of Probabilities: An Essay on Modern Bayesian Methods. M.I.T. Press.
Good, I.J. (1968). “Fallacies, Statistical,” International Enc. Social Sciences, Macmillian and Free Press, 5, 292–301.
Good, I.J. (1969). “A Subjective Evaluation of Bode's Law and an Objective Test for Approximate Numerical Rationality (with discussion),” J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 64, 23–66.
Good, I.J. (1971) “46656 varieties of Bayesians.” Letter in American Statistician, 25: 62– 63. Reprinted in Good Thinking, (Good 1983a), pp. 20–21.
Good, I.J. (1972). “Comments on Colin Blyth's two papers: On Simpson's Paradox and the Sure-thing Principle and Some Probability Paradoxes in Choice From Among Random alternatives,” J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 67, 374–375.
Good, I.J. and J.F. Crook (1974). “The Bayes/Non-Bayes Compromise and the Multinomial Distribution,” J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 69, 711–720.
Good, I.J. (1976). “On the Application of Symmetric Dirichlet distributions and their mixtures to contingency tables,” Ann. Statist., 4, 1159–1189.
Good, I.J. (1983a). Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and its Applications. Univ. of Minnesota Press.
Good, I.J. (1983b). “Who is a Bayesian?” Letter in American Statistician 37 (Feb.), 95.
Good, I.J. and Y. Mittal (1985). “The Amalgamation and Geometry of Two-by-Two Contingency Tables,” Ann. Statist., 15, 694–711. |