The late Leo Breiman, a founding father of CART, talks about his experience using statistics in the Cold War, and traces the ideas, decisions and chance events that culminated in his contribution to CART.
In this video, the late
Dr. Leo Breiman (1928 - 2005), a founding father of
CART (Classification And Regression Trees), a leading statistician of his time, and a winner of
2005 KDD Innovation Award,
talks about his experience using statistics in the Cold War, and traces the ideas, decisions and chance events that culminated in his contribution to CART.
The video was recorded at the Salford Systems Data Mining Conference in 2004.