My goal is to reduce advanced theory (in statistics, machine learning, algorithm analysis, and quantitative finance) to practice, producing useful and commercially valuable information services and models. Over the last 35 years, teams under my direction have created FAME, Tradeline Plus, NewsAgent, Cogent, NewsTrade, Newscast, NewsEdge v8, Metabot, TIGER, and SyndicationSuite, all of which were marketplace successes, generating significant revenue from marquee clients.I have published in Econometrica, Management Science, The Annals of Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. These papers address decision theory, portfolio theory, non-parametric statistical tests, multivariate graphics, and text processing (my scholar h-index is 15, my g-index is 37, and my Erdos number is 3). I hold eleven U.S. patents on real-time content distribution, content selection optimization methods, unsupervised machine learning (clustering) and tweet-stream analysis.My colleagues and I have developed of a number of algorithms and processes considered standards in their fields, including the Friedman-Rafsky multivariate two-sample test, a widely-used (and now classic) statistical procedure. The graphical display associated with this test won the JASA Theory & Methods Award. We have also built statistically-driven text mining equity trading models that make money.Specialties: real-time programming; text search and taxonomic categorization; classification, natural language processing, decision trees and machine learning; network and data delivery optimization; XML; digital content management; cryptography; c programming; multivariate data analysis; Bayes estimates; time series analysis and forecasting; financial analysis and portfolio theory; sports metrics; military operations research; algorithm development and computational complexity.