Russell Hiscock creates new statistics and actuarial science lab in M4

Friday, October 20, 2023
Russell Hiscock

The former President and CEO of the CN Investment Division wants to see the Faculty take the next step in its evolution

When Russell Hiscock (BMath ’75) speaks to current students about his time at Waterloo, he tells them about having to wait in line in the Red Room, punch card in hand, to test a small snippet of code. Or about not being able to afford a calculator until his third year and having to do complex calculations, like standard deviation, manually. These stories are so foreign to students’ current realities–where code is debugged instantaneously and calculators abound in every electronic device–that they often elicit wide-eyed disbelief.

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