From the Preface: Jack Kiefer's sudden and unexpected death in August 1981 stunned his family
friends and colleagues. Memorial services in Cincinnati Ohio Berkeley California and
Ithaca New York shortly after his death brought forth tributes from so many who shared in
his life. But it was only with the passing of time that those who were close to him or to his
work were able to begin assessing Jack's impact as a person and intellect. About one year after
his death an expression of what Jack meant to all of us took place at the 1982 annual meeting
of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. Jack had
been intimately involved in the affairs of the IMS as a Fellow since 1957 as a member of the
Council as President in 1970 as Wald lecturer in 1962 and as a frequent author in its
journals. It was doubly fitting that the site of this meeting was Cincinnati the place of his
birth and residence of his mother other family and friends.Three lectures were presented
there at a Memorial Session - by Jerry Sacks dealing with Jack's personal life by Larry Brown
dealing with Jack's contributions in statistics and probability and by Henry Wynn dealing with
Jack's contributions to the design of experiments. These three papers together with Jack's
bibliography were published in the Annals of Statistics and are included as an introduction to
these volumes.
