Title:

Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Affiliation:

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley,California 94720 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2010

Award Discipline:

Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Award Year:

2012

Citation:

"For fundamental contributions to probability theory, mathematical statistics, information theory, mathematical logic, and Blackwell games, which have had a lasting impact on critical endeavors such as drug testing, computer communications, and manufacturing."

Award presented by President Barack Obama to David Blackwell's children, represented by Hugo Blackwell and Sara Blackwell Hunt, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 20, 2014.

Posthumous