Professors Hastie and Tibshirani published "The Elements of Statistical learning: Data mining, inference and prediction", with Jerome Friedman (springer, 2001, second edition 2009). This book has received a terrific reception, with over 45,000 copies sold. Both presenters are actively involved in research in statistical learning methods, and are well-known not only in the statistics community but in the machine-learning, neural network and bioinformatics fields as well. Their newer book "An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R" (with Gareth James and Daniela Witten, 2013) is also a best-seller, and has remained consistently in the top 10 in the Amazon categories "Mathematics and Statistics" and "Artificial Intelligence", with a five-star rating based on 84 customer reviews. Over the years they have become leaders in the statistical analysis of DNA microarrays, working with leading-edge biologists such as Patrick Brown of Stanford University, and David Botstein of Princeton.