History

2015

• Nell Sedransk named Director of NISS

2014

• Mary Batcher becomes chair of the NISS Board of Trustees
• Alan Karr resigns as Director of NISS
• Nell Sedransk becomes Acting Director of NISS

2012

• Triangle Census Research Network contract is issued by the National Science Foundation
• NISS and Cornell are co-awarded to be the NSF-Census Research Network Coordination Office

2011

• Susan Ellenberg becomes chair of the NISS Board of Trustees
• Project Talent contract is issued with ESSI and AIR

2010

• Work on the Online Reading Comprehension Assessment (ORCA) Project looking at schools in Maine, Connecticut and North Carolina begins.

2009

• NISS-NASS Research in Residence Program begins
• NISS, in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), in conjunction with Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (KAI), Berkeley Transportation Systems (BTS), the University of Utah, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) begins research on Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability.

2008

• NISS building expansion complete. Addition of 11,782 square feet.
• James Landwehr becomes Chairman of the Board of Trustees
• Explorations Workshops initiated
• Research initiated with the National Cancer Institute’s CP Tech

2007

• Affiliate working groups initiated include: QT for pharmaceuticals, Data Confidentiality and Data Quality
• SAMSI receives renewal of funding from NSF
• Strategic positioning study completed and adopted by NISS Board of Trustees

2006

• Expanded activity in education statistics
• NISS celebrates 15th anniversary with multiple events
• Survey cost modeling project begins
• New areas of data confidentiality are explored, including Bayesian characterization of transparency risk and utility
• New research initiatives include: experimental analysis of algorithms, evidentiary statistics, proteomics and biomedical imaging
• New Researcher Fellowships presented to Scott Holan (University of Missouri) and Sherry Wang (SMU)

2005

• Year of the affiliate
• Nell Sedransk appointed Associate Director
• NISS plays major role with the Education Statistical Services Institute
• NISS Distinguished Service Awards established; initial awards presented to Albert Bowker, Daniel G. Horvitz, Janet Norwood and Martha L. Williamson
• Affiliates Program receives SPAIG Award from ASA
• NISS Building receives Design Award from NC Chapter of AIA
• The Future of Data Analysis: A Conference in Honor of Jon Kettenring held in Basking Ridge, NJ
• Planning for building expansion begins

2004

• SDL for geospatial image data project begins
• Strategic vision adopted by Board of Trustees
• Studies for National Center for Education Statistics commence
• Pharmacogenomics Technology Day
• Vijay Nair becomes chair of the Board of Trustees
• EPA funded project on global climate change begins

2003

• NISS-CIIT Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship: high-density microarrays
• Second NSF-funded data confidentiality project begins
• NISS organizes efforts to engage statistics community in problems of national defense and homeland security

2002

• SAMSI has its grand opening; NISS is one of the founding members
• Hiring of Stanley Young as Assistant Director
• Streamlined structure introduced for NISS Corporation and Board of Trustees

2001

• Initial Sacks Award presented to Elizabeth Thompson
• NISS receives ITR award from NISS for research on light-weight instrumentation of software
• NISS performs data quality research for BTS
• Thomas Gerig appointed Assistant Director for Affiliates Programs

2000

• Tenth anniversary of NISS is celebrated
• Alan Karr becomes director
• Affiliates program created
• Jon Kettenring becomes chair of the Board of Trustees
• Sacks Award established
• Initial NISS JSM Reception held
• Computer model evaluation projects funded by NSF and GM begin

1999

• Digital Government project begins
• A Web-Based System for Disclosure-Limited Statistical Analysis of Confidential Data commences, helping to establish NISS as a leader in research at the intersection of statistics, computer science, behavioral and cognitive science

1998

• NISS collaborates with Los Alamos National Laboratories on the TRANSIMS activity-travel project, Statistically Based Activity Generation, funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration

1997

• NISS building is completed

1996

• Design for the NISS building is developed by O'Brien and Atkins

1993

• First NISS postdoctoral fellows are appointed
• Analysis, Exploration and Inference in Large Educational Data Sets project with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) commences
• Conde Decay in Legacy Softward Systems: Measurements, Models and Statistical Strategies awarded partnering with Lucent Technologies

1992

• Alan Karr joins NISS as associate director
• Statistical Strategies for Monitoring and Assessing Environmental Changes and Effects first project funded by US EPA
• Intermodal Surface Transportation Act project begins

1991

• NISS incorporated in January
• Dan Horvitz of RTI becomes interim director
• Jerome Sacks becomes first director of NISS

1990

• Founding ceremony held December 3 at Glaxo in Research Triangle Park
• Grant from Research Triangle Foundation of NC via the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies Inc. (TUCASI) for $250,000 per year for 1st 6 academic years
• TUCASI gives NISS a 99 year lease of 10 acres of land for $1/year
• State of North Carolina anticipates to give NISS an appropriation of $2.5 million to cover half the cost of a 33,000 sq. ft. building
• NISS opens office at RTI