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David Blackwell

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  • David Blackwell was born

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    Blackwell's Mathematics Focus

  • Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton

  • Interviewed at University of California at Berkeley

  • Offered Job at Southern University at Baton Rouge

  • Clark College in Atlanta

  • Married Ann Madison

    Former Student in Atlanta

  • Howard University

  • Lecture by Abe Girshick of the Department of Agriculture

    Lecture was on sequential analysis which sparked an interest in statistics.

  • Full Time Professor & Head of the Math Department

  • Heightened Interest in the theory of games

    While he worked at the RAND Corporation

  • Ended at RAND Corporation

    This was the last summer he worked for this corporation.

  • Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions

    Published a book with Abe Girshick

  • Addressed the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam

  • President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

  • More Honors

    Vice President of the American Statistical Association
    Vice President of the International Statistical Institute
    Vice President of the American Mathematical Society

  • University of California at Berkeley

    Shifted focus to interest in Statistics

  • National Academy of Sciences

  • Infinite games and Analytic Sets

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Found a game theory proof of the Kuratowski Reduction Theorem (Connecting the areas of game theory and topology)

  • Retired from University of California at Berkeley

  • John von Neumann Theory Prize

    Operations Research Society of America
    For work in dynamic programming

  • R A Fisher Award

    Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies

  • David Blackwell's Legacy Begins