A View of Computational Statistics and Its Curriculum

1. Introduction. The spectacular growth in the field of computing science is obvious to all. Indeed, the most obvious manifestations, the ubiquitous microcomputer, is in some ways perhaps the least significant aspect of this revolution. The new pipeline and parallel architectures including systolic arrays and hypercubes, the emergence of artificial intelligence, the cheap availablility of RAM and color graphics, the impact of high resolution graphics, the potential for optical, biological and chemical computing machines and the pressing need for software/language models for parallel computing are all aspects of the computation revolution which figure prominently in the other sciences.