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Dr. Judith M. Tanur is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita from the Department of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook (Stony Brook University). Dr. Tanur received her BS degree in Psychology from Columbia, MA degree in Mathematical Statistics from Columbia, and the Ph.D. degree in Sociology from SUNY-Stony Brook. She is a Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of International Statistical Institute, and recipient of ASA’s Founders’ Award.

Dr. Tanur edited International Encyclopedia of Statistics, Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, and Questions about Questions: Inquiries into the Cognitive Bases of Surveys. She co-authored (with S. James Press) The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach. She was a member of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council, chairing its Advanced Research Seminar on Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology, co-chaired the SSRC Committee on Cognition and Survey Research, was an ASA/NSF/BLS Senior Research Fellow and a co-editor of Chance, served on the ASA Advisory Committee for SIPP, NSF Panels and visiting committees. She serves on the Advisory Committee to the NSF Director for SBE, the Board of Trustees of the NORC and the Board of Directors of SSRC. For more details, please feel free to visit the following website - http://www.sunysb.edu/sociology/?faculty/Tanur/tanur.

Dr. Miron L. Straf is the Deputy Director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. He had his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1964,1965) and the Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Chicago (1969). He was Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1983, Elected Chair of Social Statistics Section of ASA in 1995, and served as a Member of the Board of Directors of ASA in 2001-2003. Dr. Straf became the President of ASA in 2002. He has served in numerous National Committees both at the Federal and State levels.

Dr. Straf has over thirty years of experience in teaching, research, and research management at the University of California-Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences. His consulting experience includes the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government and the Federal Judicial Center on the preparation of protocols for statistical evidence in court. Dr. Straf developed over 50 major studies and over 40 conferences in the application of statistics to public policy. He led the Committee on National Statistics from an organization at the National Academy of Sciences to a widely respected and influential institution in the Federal government and academic communities. For more details, please feel free to visit the following website - http://www.straf.net/research.html.