Duncan Participates as Expert in U.S Census Bureau Workshop

George Duncan, Professor of Statistics, participated as an expert on confidentiality and the relationship between information technology and social accountability in a workshop for the U.S. Census Bureau.

Charles Kincannon, the Director of the U. S. Census Bureau, called together a small group of leading thinkers on issues of privacy and data access for a workshop with him and his senior staff in Santa Cruz, California, March 2-4. The workshop was facilitated by Vincent Barabba, who recently retired as general manager of Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development of General Motors. Mr. Barabba twice served as director of the Census Bureau.

Professor Duncan's research centers on information technology and social accountability. Areas of current interest include privacy and information issues, Bayesian decision making, conflict resolution through mediation and Bayesian forecasting. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1996, the ASA elected him Pittsburgh Statistician of the Year.