New Author's Committee Chair 

 I'd like to announce a change today in our Blog Author's Committee Chair from  Jim Greiner  to  Amy Perfors .  Amy was a Stanford undergrad and is now a 3rd year graduate student at MIT.  She is interested in using Bayesian technology as models of how humans think, evolutionary linguistics, how humans learn, and a variety of other interesting topics.  See her   web site   for lots more info.  In addition to writing some of our most interesting blog entries, I especially recommend  this great picture  of her winning a line out inrugby! 
 


 Jim, the first chair of our author's committee, led this group from a pretty good idea to, in my view and judging from our large and fast growing readership, an enormously successful and informative blog.  He will continue on as a member of our Author's Committee, but he's busy this semester running his innovative class in the Law School and Statistics Department,  Quantitative Social Science, Law, Expert Witnesses, and Litigation . 

 Jim Greiner graduated with a B.A. in Government from the University of Virginia and received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995. He clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham on the U.S. 
Court of Appeals and was a practicing lawyer in the Justice Department and private practice before joining the Harvard Statistics Department.