Norman H. Nie
Норман Ни, один из трех и главный создатель SPSS в далекие уже (и прекрасные) 60-е годы, умер вчера, на следующий день после своего 72-го дня рождения. В 1969 студент-социолог Норман Ни совместно с кибернетиками Дейлом Бентом и Хедлаем Халлом придумал и создал программу для автоматической статистической обработки множества анкет - SPSS, и написал об этом изобретении свою диссертацию.
Пишет ViAnn Beadle, один из старейших разработчиков в SPSS:
"Norman Nie, one of the principal creators of SPSS died today. I have known Norman since 1969 when I was a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Norman gave me my first real job in 1972 and my life would not be what it is without his mentorship, encouragement, and support.
Norman was a graduate student at Stanford University in the ‘60s who had a big problem to solve: how to analyze thousands of political surveys conducted among residents of 7 nations with nominally Democratic governments. In those days, the tool of choice was an IBM counter-sorter which was used to tabulate punch cards. Norman along with Tex Hull and Dale Bent (also at Stanford) developed a program to run on an IBM 360 to do all the drudge work and called it the Statistical Program for the Social Sciences. It was later renamed SPSS. Norman was the first and most influential user of SPSS. Norman and Tex both took jobs at the University of Chicago, Norman in the Political Science Department and Tex at the Computation Center. Even before they came to Chicago, SPSS was being adopted by graduate schools and governmental agencies. I was hired to provide technical support to the rapidly expanding user base for SPSS and retired in 2007.
Norman was first and foremost, a talented and respected Political Scientist and probably more proud of his contributions to Political Science than SPSS.
There would be no SPSS without Norman and all former and current SPSSers who knew him, miss him today."
Пишет ViAnn Beadle, один из старейших разработчиков в SPSS:
"Norman Nie, one of the principal creators of SPSS died today. I have known Norman since 1969 when I was a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Norman gave me my first real job in 1972 and my life would not be what it is without his mentorship, encouragement, and support.
Norman was a graduate student at Stanford University in the ‘60s who had a big problem to solve: how to analyze thousands of political surveys conducted among residents of 7 nations with nominally Democratic governments. In those days, the tool of choice was an IBM counter-sorter which was used to tabulate punch cards. Norman along with Tex Hull and Dale Bent (also at Stanford) developed a program to run on an IBM 360 to do all the drudge work and called it the Statistical Program for the Social Sciences. It was later renamed SPSS. Norman was the first and most influential user of SPSS. Norman and Tex both took jobs at the University of Chicago, Norman in the Political Science Department and Tex at the Computation Center. Even before they came to Chicago, SPSS was being adopted by graduate schools and governmental agencies. I was hired to provide technical support to the rapidly expanding user base for SPSS and retired in 2007.
Norman was first and foremost, a talented and respected Political Scientist and probably more proud of his contributions to Political Science than SPSS.
There would be no SPSS without Norman and all former and current SPSSers who knew him, miss him today."