Robert Gentleman joins REvolution’s board of directors

We’re so excited here at REvolution Computing to announce that Robert Gentleman has joined our board of directors. Robert is one of the two originators of the R Project: a research project between Robert and Ross Ihaka in 1996 was the genesis of the R language. (Both Robert and Ross were profiled in an article in the New York Times about R last year.) Today, the R Project has grown tremendously, with estimates of more than 2 million users worldwide, thousands of volunteer contributors to R packages, and more than 20 world-leading statisticians and computer scientists leading the core development. Robert was also the leader of the BioConductor project for many years, developing cutting-edge tools in R for the analysis of genetic data. Today, Robert continues his research in genomics as a senior director in bioinformatics at Genentech. He had this to say about joining our board:

“REvolution has made important contributions to the R community and to the commercial use of R on an enterprise level,” Gentleman said. “I am eager to help Norman and the team expand the role R has in the commercial world and to help bring high-quality analytic and graphical software to many new areas of application.”

Robert’s expertise in R, the R project, and open-source projects in general will be invaluable to us as we develop our plans for REvolution Computing. 

We’re also pleased to announce a second new appointment to our board of directors: financial expert Donald Nickelson. You can read more about both new board members in our press release linked below. 

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