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2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide

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The Rousseeuw Prize honors five pioneering developers for nearly three decades of unpaid work building R, the foundational open-source computing language behind artificial intelligence, healthcare, and economic decision-making; Used by organizations including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, major pharmaceutical companies, and global central banks, R has become the trusted infrastructure for high-stakes analysis because it is stable, auditable, and reproducible.

NEW YORK, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Five members of the R Core Team have been awarded the prestigious Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their decades of work building and maintaining the R Project, “R,” a free and open-source statistical computing language used across global research institutions, healthcare systems, financial organizations, and technology companies. The Rousseeuw Prize is an international award recognizing major contributions to statistical research.

“Long before AI became a global conversation, the R Core Team was building the statistical infrastructure that made today’s data-driven world possible,” said Stanford University statistics professor and leading statistician David Donoho, PhD.

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize honorees are:

Brian D. Ripley, emeritus professor at the University of OxfordMartin Maechler, emeritus professor at ETH ZurichKurt Hornik, department chair at WU Vienna University of Economics and BusinessPeter Dalgaard, professor at Copenhagen Business SchoolLuke Tierney, professor at the University of Iowa

The five laureates receive half of the prize money because they are deemed to have made the longest sustained contributions to the R project; the other half of the prize is shared among the many others who have been active on the R Core Team.

Together, the R Project volunteers have spent the last 27 years and a collective 28,000 coding hours on R, developing an open-source programming language and software environment that transformed statistics from a proprietary corporate tool into a global public good. The software is relied upon by organizations including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, pharmaceutical companies, and central banks such as the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.

The award recognizes the team’s role in making advanced statistical tools widely accessible. By keeping R free and open-source under the GNU General Public License, the R Core Team removed many of the financial barriers that have historically limited access to advanced analytics software. Due to this increased accessibility, hundreds of thousands of users including researchers, students, hospitals, public health organizations, and governments around the world are able to utilize the same statistical tools regardless of institutional resources. In addition, they use R to share transcripts of their data analyses, allowing one user’s workflows to power other users data analyses everywhere around the world. The frictionless spread of these transcripts has powered countless educational data science projects globally and hundreds of course textbooks at the PhD and Master’s level. In a recent twist, it’s not only humans who use R: AI data analyst `agents’ have been learning from the massive volume of published R transcripts and are now able to assist with many everyday data analysis tasks.

“Long before AI became a global conversation, the R Core Team was building the statistical infrastructure that made today’s data-driven world possible,” said Stanford University statistics professor and leading statistician David Donoho, PhD. “This team’s stewardship of R created an open and trusted foundation for research across disciplines and continents. Few innovations have had such a profound effect on how knowledge is produced, shared, and validated in the modern era.”

Named after Professor Peter Rousseeuw, a pioneering Belgian statistician known for his foundational work in robust statistics and data analysis, the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics recognizes innovations that have transformed the understanding and application of data for the benefit of society. Past laureates include internationally renowned statisticians and researchers whose work has advanced fields ranging from epidemiology and artificial intelligence to public policy and scientific discovery.

For more information, visit https://www.rousseeuwprize.org/.

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AiPPT.com Completes the World’s First Four-Mode AI Presentation Ecosystem with New Agent Capabilities and Redesigned Workspace

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SINGAPORE, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPPT.com announced the completion of its four-mode AI presentation ecosystem, integrating AiPPT Classic, AiPPT Flow, AiPPT Visual, and AiPPT Agent into one unified platform. The update introduces enhanced AI creation workflows, HTML web page generation through AiPPT Agent, and a redesigned workspace that helps users create, manage, share, and reuse their presentation projects more efficiently.

Unlike traditional presentation tools that focus on a single creation method, AiPPT.com is the only platform that offers four different AI presentation modes within one ecosystem. Designed for students, educators, business professionals, marketers, researchers, and creators, the platform allows users to choose the most suitable approach based on their specific goals, from structured presentations and data reports to visual storytelling and interactive content creation.

One AI Presentation Platform with Four Flexible Creation Modes

The four modes work together to cover different aspects of presentation creation while remaining connected in one workflow.

For users who need clear and professional slide structures, AiPPT Classic provides an efficient way to build presentations for business reports, proposals, meetings, academic projects, and daily communication. When projects require more flexibility, AiPPT Flow helps users develop adaptive presentations from documents, webpages, prompts, and templates with smart layouts, diagrams, and interactive components that adjust as content grows.

Creative projects can benefit from AiPPT Visual, which focuses on richer visual experiences through AI-generated images, animations, and presentation to video capabilities. Meanwhile, AiPPT Agent brings these creation possibilities together through an intelligent workflow. Users can provide topics, documents, images, or notes, and the Agent analyzes requirements, organizes information, researches content when needed, creates presentation structures, generates slides, and supports further editing through conversation.

The Agent also enables HTML web page generation, allowing users to transform ideas into different content formats within the same creation process.

A Redesigned Workspace for Managing Every Creation

Along with the four-mode ecosystem, AiPPT.com has redesigned its workspace to become a central hub for all generated content.

The updated workspace organizes presentations and creative results from different workflows into a structured library, making it easier for users to find, manage, and reuse previous projects. Users can also access shared works, review visitor engagement data, and control access permissions through the same environment.

Beyond presentation creation, the workspace includes practical AI tools such as image generation and template resources, helping users complete specific tasks without leaving the platform.

Creating a More Connected Future for AI Communication

As the way people share information continues to change, presentations are becoming more than static slides. They are evolving into flexible communication formats used across education, business, research, marketing, and online content.

With its four-mode ecosystem, intelligent workflows, and integrated workspace, AiPPT.com is building a broader environment where users can move from ideas to finished content in ways that match their individual needs and creative goals.

About AiPPT.com

AiPPT.com is an AI-powered presentation and content creation platform that helps users transform ideas, documents, URLs, and research materials into professional presentations. The platform combines AI presentation generation, editing, visual creation, document understanding, conversion tools, and content management features within one workspace. AiPPT.com supports users worldwide, including students, educators, professionals, and creators who want to communicate ideas more effectively.

Contact Information
Email: support@aippt.com 

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AiPPT.com Completes the World’s First Four-Mode AI Presentation Ecosystem with New Agent Capabilities and Redesigned Workspace

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SINGAPORE, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPPT.com announced the completion of its four-mode AI presentation ecosystem, integrating AiPPT Classic, AiPPT Flow, AiPPT Visual, and AiPPT Agent into one unified platform. The update introduces enhanced AI creation workflows, HTML web page generation through AiPPT Agent, and a redesigned workspace that helps users create, manage, share, and reuse their presentation projects more efficiently.

Unlike traditional presentation tools that focus on a single creation method, AiPPT.com is the only platform that offers four different AI presentation modes within one ecosystem. Designed for students, educators, business professionals, marketers, researchers, and creators, the platform allows users to choose the most suitable approach based on their specific goals, from structured presentations and data reports to visual storytelling and interactive content creation.

One AI Presentation Platform with Four Flexible Creation Modes

The four modes work together to cover different aspects of presentation creation while remaining connected in one workflow.

For users who need clear and professional slide structures, AiPPT Classic provides an efficient way to build presentations for business reports, proposals, meetings, academic projects, and daily communication. When projects require more flexibility, AiPPT Flow helps users develop adaptive presentations from documents, webpages, prompts, and templates with smart layouts, diagrams, and interactive components that adjust as content grows.

Creative projects can benefit from AiPPT Visual, which focuses on richer visual experiences through AI-generated images, animations, and presentation to video capabilities. Meanwhile, AiPPT Agent brings these creation possibilities together through an intelligent workflow. Users can provide topics, documents, images, or notes, and the Agent analyzes requirements, organizes information, researches content when needed, creates presentation structures, generates slides, and supports further editing through conversation.

The Agent also enables HTML web page generation, allowing users to transform ideas into different content formats within the same creation process.

A Redesigned Workspace for Managing Every Creation

Along with the four-mode ecosystem, AiPPT.com has redesigned its workspace to become a central hub for all generated content.

The updated workspace organizes presentations and creative results from different workflows into a structured library, making it easier for users to find, manage, and reuse previous projects. Users can also access shared works, review visitor engagement data, and control access permissions through the same environment.

Beyond presentation creation, the workspace includes practical AI tools such as image generation and template resources, helping users complete specific tasks without leaving the platform.

Creating a More Connected Future for AI Communication

As the way people share information continues to change, presentations are becoming more than static slides. They are evolving into flexible communication formats used across education, business, research, marketing, and online content.

With its four-mode ecosystem, intelligent workflows, and integrated workspace, AiPPT.com is building a broader environment where users can move from ideas to finished content in ways that match their individual needs and creative goals.

About AiPPT.com

AiPPT.com is an AI-powered presentation and content creation platform that helps users transform ideas, documents, URLs, and research materials into professional presentations. The platform combines AI presentation generation, editing, visual creation, document understanding, conversion tools, and content management features within one workspace. AiPPT.com supports users worldwide, including students, educators, professionals, and creators who want to communicate ideas more effectively.

Contact Information
Email: support@aippt.com 

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Axiom and Legora Mark One Year of Delivering AI-Enabled Legal Services at Scale for In-House Legal Teams

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Legora and Axiom combine advanced legal AI technology with flexible, AI-enabled legal talent to help in-house legal teams drive measurable results across high-volume legal work.

NEW YORK and STOCKHOLM, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Axiom and Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals, today marked one year since Legora became part of Axiom’s AI Tech+Talent portfolio. Shared client results across healthcare, aerospace, real estate, and manufacturing show that the combination of Legora’s purpose-built legal AI and Axiom’s AI-enabled legal talent is delivering faster turnarounds, cleaner data, and significant cost savings for in-house legal teams managing high-volume legal work.

“Legal leaders are done waiting for AI to prove itself. They need solutions that are already driving measurable results on real matters,” said David McVeigh, Chief Executive Officer at Axiom. “Legora has emerged as one of the most innovative platforms in legal technology, and together we’re helping clients improve speed, efficiency, and business impact by pairing Legora with Axiom’s flexible, AI-enabled legal talent.”

The results are clear: organizations across multiple sectors are using Axiom and Legora to streamline complex, high-volume legal workflows with greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency while reducing spend and minimizing the need to expand internal teams. Across shared engagements, clients have cut review timelines from months to weeks, reduced legal resource requirements, improved data quality, and achieved meaningful savings when compared with traditional delivery models.

Global Manufacturer: Axiom deployed an AI-enabled legal team that used Legora to review more than 16,000 legacy agreements ahead of a major corporate transaction, identifying roughly 1,500 contracts with change-in-control language and creating 185 contract families tied to unfavorable terms. The client cut the review timeline from one year to five weeks — a roughly 90% reduction — while saving $477,000 compared to a non-AI-enabled team solution and gaining structured, human-validated contract data to support negotiations with confidence.Aerospace Technology Company: Axiom deployed Legora alongside an AI-enabled legal professional with Ironclad expertise to categorize, upload, and extract key metadata from 1,400 contracts into the client’s Ironclad CLM system. The engagement helped the client complete a long-overdue CMS overhaul without requiring a single in-house resource, while delivering 20-30% higher accuracy than the client’s own CMS AI tool and giving the legal team a faster, more reliable path to usable contract data inside its CLM environment.Real Estate Manager: Axiom deployed Legora to digitize and extract key data from 2,000 leases across a newly acquired portfolio of 93 commercial properties, saving over half a million dollars compared to a non-AI solution and cutting per-lease review time by more than half. The engagement also reduced the legal resources required from five lawyers to one — an 80% reduction in staffing needs for the review.Fortune 10 Healthcare Company: Axiom deployed an AI-enabled senior lawyer who used Legora to process 344 supplier contracts for a Fortune 10 healthcare company, migrating hundreds of agreements ahead of a product launch. The client saved 70% compared to the cost of sending the work to outside counsel, completed the project with properly categorized agreements, and finished the work in days rather than weeks.

Axiom’s and Legora’s shared in-house clients gained immediate visibility into obligations, risks, commercial terms, and transaction-critical contract data at a speed and cost that traditional outside counsel cannot match. By combining Axiom’s AI-enabled legal talent with Legora’s purpose-built legal AI, they compressed review timelines, reduced manual legal effort, and moved high-volume legal work forward with greater confidence and control.

“In-house legal teams are managing more work volume, under more pressure, than ever before,” said Max Junestrand, CEO and Co-Founder of Legora. “Pairing Legora’s collaborative AI with Axiom’s flexible, AI-enabled legal talent gives clients a faster, more reliable path to real outcomes on high-volume legal work. This reflects how we build at Legora: deeply integrated with a partner that in-house legal teams trust and focused on helping lawyers deliver their best work.”

“The teams getting AI right are not the ones moving fastest. They are the most disciplined,” said Chris Frickland, Vice President, AI Solutions at Axiom. “Success comes from pairing the right technology with the right legal talent, workflows, and oversight from the start. The real value is unlocked when experienced legal professionals know how to apply AI to the right use cases and in the right way. That is exactly what Axiom’s AI Tech+Talent model delivers with Legora, and a year of client results proves it.”

Together, Axiom and Legora are purpose-built for that demand across contract remediation, CLM migration, M&A and transaction diligence, regulatory response, data extraction, and large-scale document review.

Explore AI Tech+Talent and learn more about Axiom and Legora

For more information about Axiom, visit www.axiomlaw.com. For more information about Legora, visit legora.com. Connect with both companies on LinkedIn: Axiom | Legora.

About Axiom
As the leading alternative legal services provider globally, Axiom Law gives in-house legal teams on-demand access to top legal talent and lawyers — deployed when, where, and how clients need it, for up to 50% less than national law firms.

Axiom’s network of 14,000+ legal professionals includes 4,000+ lawyers with Fortune 500 experience, delivering AI-enabled legal services across more than 12 practice areas: M&A, regulatory compliance, data privacy, labor and employment, technology and AI, and more. Engagements range from legal secondments and complex project support to fully embedded team solutions.

The results speak for themselves. Trusted by 75% of the Fortune 100 and thousands of mid-market leaders, Axiom ranks #1 among Alternative Legal Service Providers in 8 of 9 performance categories — including talent quality, breadth, productivity, and client experience — according to a top 5 global consulting firm. Across more than 3,000 engagements annually in 6 regions and 4 continents, 93% of clients rate Axiom lawyers as good as or better than top law firm attorneys, with 96% client satisfaction and measurable cost savings that reduce outside counsel spend without sacrificing quality.

Stop overpaying for law firm work. Start with Axiom. For more information, visit www.axiomlaw.com.

About Legora
Legora is the agentic operating system for legal work, supporting lawyers in research, review, and drafting across complex matters. It is used by more than 100,000 legal professionals at more than 1,200 leading law firms and in-house legal teams across over 50 markets.

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