Brian Ripley was the Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford and a member of the Department of Statistics as well as a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter's College.
He retired in August 2014 on grounds of ill health and is now an Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow.
He was awarded:
Smith Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1975.
Rollo Davidson Prize in 1976.
Adams Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1986.
Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 2013.
There are home pages for
Venables & Ripley (1994,7,9,2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S
Ripley (1996) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Venables & Ripley (2000) S Programming
and errata lists for his books.
After 35 years the address ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk has been migrated to an unreliable Microsoft server: ripleybd@iCloud.com is preferred.Personal digital photography albums up to 2017.