David H. Blackwell

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Probability

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Set theory, Recursive functions, Measure theory, Stochastic processes, Game theory, Information theory, Linear programming

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

  1. David Blackwell. The prediction of sequences. Internat. J. Game Theory, 31(2):245-251 (2003), 2002. Special anniversary issue.
  2. David Blackwell. Large excesses for finite-state Markov chains. In System and Bayesian reliability, volume 5 of Ser. Qual. Reliab. Eng. Stat., pages 35-39. World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2001.
  3. David Blackwell. The square-root game. In Game theory, optimal stopping, probability and statistics, volume 35 of IMS Lecture Notes Monogr. Ser., pages 35-37. Inst. Math. Statist., Beachwood, OH, 2000.
  4. Dean P. Foster, David K. Levine, and Rakesh V. Vohra, editors. Learning in games: a symposium in honor of David Blackwell. Academic Press Inc., Oxford, 1999. Games Econom. Behav. 29 (1999), no. 1-2.
  5. D. Blackwell. Large deviations for martingales. In Festschrift for Lucien Le Cam, pages 89-91. Springer, New York, 1997.

David H. Blackwell

YEAR APPOINTED: 1955

YEAR DECEASED: 2010