Francis and Popelyukhin Papers Earn Top Honors

Louise A. Francis won the 2005 Management Data and Information Prize for her paper, "Dancing With Dirty Data: Methods for Exploring and Cleaning Data." Francis was awarded a plaque, a silver Jefferson Cup, and a monetary prize during a special ceremony at this year's CAS Ratemaking Seminar held in New Orleans last March.

Aleksey S. Popelyukhin, Ph.D., was chosen runner up for his paper, "The Games We Play: The Future of DFA Models' Interfaces." Popelyukhin was awarded a Jefferson Cup and a monetary prize during the ceremony.

The winning papers were written in response to the 2005 call for Data Management, Quality, and Technology Papers, conducted by the CAS Committee on Management Data and Information. The two papers are published in the 2005 CAS Winter Forum and are available on the CAS Web Site.