Deming literature award

[DANSWART@aol.com]

>From the AOL Business Wire comes a piece that may be of interest to the DEN:

Japanese Deming Prize Committee Awards 1999 Nikkei Quality Control Literature 
Prize to Dan Steinberg, President of Salford Systems

     SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1999--Dan Steinberg, president of 
Salford Systems, has won Japan's Nikkei Quality Control (QC) Literature Prize.

     The award, announced last week, recognizes literature that contributes 
to the progress and further development of quality control and quality 
management.

     The prize-winning book is a theoretical and practical introduction to 
CART(R) (Classification and Regression Trees) decision-tree methodology. 
Titled in English "Applied Tree-Based Methods Using CART," the book is 
co-authored by Yuji Horie and Atsushi Ootaki. Currently available only in 
Japanese from JUSE Press Ltd. (Tokyo), the book provides a detailed roadmap 
for using CART as implemented in Salford Systems software. A broad range of 
real world problems is discussed, including quality control, market research, 
credit risk management, and medical diagnosis.

     The Nikkei QC Literature Prize, established in 1954 by the Nippon Keizai 
Shimbun (Japan Economic Journal), is awarded annually by the Deming Prize 
Committee, which also awards the Deming Prize for achievement of significant 
gains in performance through Total Quality Management (TQM). The award 
ceremony will be held Nov. 15, 1999, in Tokyo.


Dan
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