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IIF LogoAgain this year (for the 12th time), SAS Research & Development has funded two $5,000 research grants, to be awarded by the International Institute of Forecasters.

  • Criteria for award of the grant will include likely impact on forecasting methods and business applications.
  • Consideration will be given to new researchers in the field and whether supplementary funding is possible.
  • The application must include: Project description, letter of support, C.V., and budget for the project.

Applications should be submitted to the IIF office by September 30, 2014 in electronic format to:

Pamela Stroud, Business Director, forecasters@forecasters.org

For more information: forecasters.org/grants-and-research-awards

See Pamela's IIF blog for information on 2013 grant winners Jeffrey Stonebraker (North Carolina State University, USA) and Yongchen (Herbert) Zhao (University at Albany, USA). The more information link also provides details on past grant recipients, including such forecasting royalty as Robert Fildes, Dave Dickey, Sven Crone, Paul Goodwin (who delivered the inaugural Foresight/SAS Webinar last year), and Stavros Asimakopoulous, who is delivering the July 24 (10am ET) Foresight/SAS Webinar on the topic of forecasting with mobile devices.

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Stavros Asimakopoulos

In addition to his recent article in Foresight, Stavros has also posted "Forecasting in the Pocket" on the SAS Insights Center.

Tags Dave Dickey forecasting research Foresight Foresight/SAS Webinar IIF Pamela Stroud Paul Goodwin Robert Fildes SAS SAS/Foresight Webinar Stavros Asimakopoulos Sven Crone
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Mike Gilliland

Product Marketing Manager

Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and formerly a Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is Associate Editor of their practitioner journal Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Mike is author of The Business Forecasting Deal (Wiley, 2010) and former editor of the free e-book Forecasting with SAS: Special Collection (SAS Press, 2020). He is principal editor of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions (Wiley, 2015) and Business Forecasting: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Wiley, 2021). In 2017 Mike received the Institute of Business Forecasting's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021 his paper "FVA: A Reality Check on Forecasting Practices" was inducted into the Foresight Hall of Fame. Mike initiated The Business Forecasting Deal blog in 2009 to help expose the seamy underbelly of forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.

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