When he left, he had been Chair of the Department of Mathematics and had published more than 20 papers. In he gave an invited address in probability at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam The Netherlands.
Right afterwards, he was appointed Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was chairman of the Statistics Department for many years. He was President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Aside from the books he has published, his teaching ability is supported as the advisor to more than 50 Ph. A list of his students is here. Though retired, Dr. Blackwell lives in Berkeley, California, where he remains active in mathematical research.
In , he married Ann Madison and took a permanent faculty position at Howard, later becoming a department head. Blackwell accepted the offer and the following year was elected president of the Institute of Mathematics and granted a full professorship at UCB. After serving as assistant dean of the college of arts and science, Blackwell served as chair of the statistics department from to With this international appointment came the presidency of the International Association for Statistics in the physical sciences.
Before retiring in , he was appointed the W. James H. He succeeded Neyman as chair between and and served as assistant dean of the College of Letters and Science between and ,.
Although Blackwell retired in , he continued to visit the department until recently, talking with colleagues about statistical ideas, according to his son Hugo. Brillinger added that David Blackwell loved track and field and often went to the national championships even when they were the other side of the country. He also served as president of the international Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, and as vice president of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, and the American Mathematical Society.
Blackwell mentored 65 Ph. A funeral is tentatively scheduled for July 31, while a UC Berkeley memorial service is planned for the fall. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Blackwell was then hired as a visiting professor by the University of California at Berkeley in where he became a full professor in the statistics department when it split off from the mathematics department in He retired in Blackwell was known for his independent invention of dynamic programming, which is used today in finance and in various areas of science, including genome analysis.
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