Inspirations Across Seven Decades
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Seven decades of work condense into concrete claims: seven decades of influence, ~16,000 citations in the 2010s, and specific bridges between robustness and Bayesian decision theory. Described tools and outcomes include the ISP stat package that evolved into BLSS and seeded talent leading to R, the AMP algorithm (approximate message passing) that equates heavy undersampling with added noise, and empirical phase transition curves that precisely predict when compressed sensing or Huber M‑estimation succeeds or has infinite variance.
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