Creators of the R programming language win major statistics prize
R 語言創始人榮獲統計學大獎
更新於: 2026年6月19日 上午08:15
The R Core Team has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, a $1 million honor often compared to the Nobel Prize.
R核心團隊獲頒享有盛譽的2026年盧瑟烏統計學獎，這是一項價值100萬美元的榮譽，常被拿來與諾貝爾獎相提並論。
This award recognizes nearly three decades of work in maintaining R, the foundational programming language that revolutionized data science.
此獎項旨在表彰近三十年來維護R語言的工作，這是徹底改變資料科學的基礎程式語言。
Originally created in the early 1990s by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, R was intended as an open-source alternative to proprietary software.
R語言最初於1990年代初期由奧克蘭大學的羅斯·伊哈卡和羅伯特·簡特曼所創，意在作為專有軟體的開源替代品。
Since 1997, the R Core Team has stewarded the project, ensuring it remains a free, stable, and reproducible platform.
自1997年以來，R核心團隊一直引領著該專案，確保它成為一個免費、穩定且具可複製性的平台。
By utilizing the GNU General Public License, the team fostered a vibrant ecosystem where users have contributed over 23,000 extension packages.
透過運用GNU通用公眾授權條款，團隊培育出一個充滿活力的生態系統，使用者貢獻了超過23,000個擴充套件。
Today, R is considered a global public good, serving as the trusted standard for high-stakes analysis in fields ranging from healthcare to economic policy.
如今，R被視為全球公共財，成為從醫療保健到經濟政策等領域進行高風險分析的信任標準。
This recognition honors not just a piece of software, but a collective effort that turned isolated statistical work into a collaborative, global community, fundamentally shaping the way we analyze the modern world.
這項殊榮表彰的不僅僅是一款軟體，更是一種集體努力，它將孤立的統計工作轉變為一個協作的全球社群，從根本上塑造了我們分析現代世界的方式。
