User:Dean P Foster

Feel free to email me at dean@foster.net.



I was a chaired professor at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Amazon. One stream of research I created involves connecting two of my favorite areas, namely statistics and game theory which recently got a test of time award. (This research also previously got us a NY times mention in a fun piece about being scooped by 40 years.)

A reasonable complete description of who I am can be found on my home page.
 * Dean Foster's homepage.

(Note: I seem to have two user names that differ by a capital letter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dean_P_Foster). I wish I knew how to merge the accounts.  I like the fact that this account has an ID of 8659.  But that really is of no import.)

Some coauthors on the wiki:


 * Peyton Young
 * Sergiu Hart
 * Sham Kakade
 * Michael Collins

The image on the right is my first upload to wikipedia. Suggestions welcome! I made it by simulating a +/- 1 bernulli trial series. Eventually, I switched to using a random walk for the simulation for large enough samples. Finally the axis are distorted by an almost log scale. I'm working on contributing these Tukey scales back to gnuplot.


 * Really nice! Boris Tsirelson (talk) 06:22, 14 May 2009 (UTC)