The author

Agnar Höskuldsson has been a consultant within statistics and computer software to industry and governmental institutions since early 1970s.

He has conducted over 100 courses in statistics at universities and industries. He has also given over 100 elementary and advanced courses in the program system SAS ( Statistical Analysis System) in industry and at institutions.

He has organized numerous workshops and symposia. He initiated the Danish Symposia in Applied Statistics and has been active in the organization committee of the symposia. The 26th symposia was held in January 2004. He organized the Nordic Workshop in Chemometrics in 1994. He is the chairman of 9th Scandinavian Symposium in Chemometrics in 2005. He is one of the leading authorities in chemometrics today.

He has written over 60 articles in international journals, conference proceedings and technical journals. He has developed a new foundation of parts of applied mathematics that he has called the H-method due to close methodological analogy to Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle. He has presented the H-method at many seminars, conferences and institutions. The basic theory is presented in the book Basic Theory, published in 1996 and further theory and applications in recent publications. He received his PhD in 1974. He was a statistical consultant and software manager at NEUCC, the regional computer center at DTU (now Uni-C region Lyngby), from 1975 until 1987. Since 1987 he has been associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

The fifth Scandinavian Symposium in Chemometrics took place in Lahti, Finland, the 17.-21. of August 1997. Around 150 persons from 15 countries took part in the conference. At the conference Agnar Höskuldsson was awarded the Herman Wold gold medal. It is given only at special occasions to a person, who has made an extraordinary contribution to the field of Chemometrics. He got the gold medal for having developed a new foundation for a part of applied mathematics that has been found useful in analyzing industrial data. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 42, that is published by Elsevier is dedicated to Agnar Höskuldsson. This volume, that appeared in the beginning of 1999, is dedicated to him for his breakthrough work.