1/ U. Toronto Professor, Nancy Reid is a national treasure. She is a FRSC, Fellow of the Royal Society (London), member of the US National Academy, and an officer of the Order of Canada. She has nothing to prove to no one but.. utoronto.ca/news/universit… @KirstyDuncanMP @ChiefSciCan
2/ She is rightly convinced that Canada is in dire need of a national institute for statistical & data science, and has been working at it for over 10 years trying to convince those holding the public purse @NSERC. She has been denied at every turn. Why? nghoussoub.com/2018/04/15/sta…
3/ Is it because —unlike the AI folks-- she didn’t go through bankers/lobbyists? Is it because of the limited vision, insular structure and/or skewed agenda of NSERC’s bureaucrats? When does this become an issue of political accountability for Canada?nghoussoub.com/2018/05/21/reb…
