Tukey, John Wilder

Tukey, John Wilder
▪ 2001

      American statistician (b. June 16, 1915, New Bedford, Mass.—d. July 26, 2000, New Brunswick, N.J.), was a renowned statistician and researcher who was credited with having coined the terms software and bit. Tukey was educated at Brown University, Providence, R.I., and Princeton University; he founded Princeton's statistics department in 1965 and remained on the university's faculty for the duration of his career. In an article that was published in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1958, he introduced the word software to describe programs on which electronic calculators ran. In 1970, while working as a researcher for AT&T's Bell Laboratories, Tukey first used the word bit as an abbreviation for binary digit. He later served as a consultant for the Educational Testing Service, Xerox Corp., and Merck & Co. He was also a noted public commentator on social and environmental topics, attracting attention with his criticism of Alfred C. Kinsey's research on sexual behaviour—which Tukey believed was seriously flawed—and his warnings that aerosol spray cans damaged the ozone layer. From 1960 to 1980 Tukey helped design election polls for NBC.

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