Andrew Gelman in the New York Times
Arianna Rosenbluth Dies at 93; Pioneering Figure in Data Science
Andrew Gelman, Higgins Professor of Statistics, Professor of Political Science and Director of ISERP's Applied Statistics Center, was quoted in the New York Times.
Dr. Rosenbluth, who received her physics Ph.D. at 21, helped create an algorithm that has became a foundation of understanding huge quantities of data. She died of complications of the coronavirus.
... Andrew Gelman, a statistician and political scientist at Columbia University, pointed out that many applications today use a program called Stan, which is based on a variant of the Metropolis algorithm. Dr. Gelman and his colleagues named the program after Stanislaw Ulam, a co-creator of the Monte Carlo methods.
“Maybe we should’ve called it Arianna,” he said.