Frank Steele, OBE

Dr. Charles Steele

OBE: Outlier by Example

Outlier detection in large datasets is an important problem. There are several recent approaches that employ very reasonable definitions of an outlier. However, a fundamental issue is that the notion of which objects are outliers typically varies between users or, even, datasets. In this paper, we present a novel solution to this problem, by bringing users into the loop. Our OBE (Outlier By Exa...

1998 Steele Prizes

The 1998 Leroy P. Steele Prizes were awarded at the 104th Annual Meeting of the AMS in January in Baltimore. These prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein and are endowed under the terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele. The Steele Prizes are awarded in three categories: for expository writing, for a research paper of...

2008 Steele Prizes

The 2008 Leroy P. Steele Prizes were awarded at the 114th Annual Meeting of the AMS in San Diego in January 2008. The Steele Prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein. Osgood was president of the AMS during 1905–1906, and Birkhoff served in that capacity during 1925–1926. The prizes are endowed under the terms of a beque...

The theoretical relevance of OBE research

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