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An oral history with David Blackwell : oral history transcript / 2003.
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Title:
An oral history with David Blackwell : oral history transcript / 2003African American faculty and senior staff oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Blackwell, David, 1919-2010, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Wilmot, Nadine, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Early years in Centralia, Illinois; early teaching jobs, including Howard University; Bayesian approach; work on information
theory; Berkeley and Berkeley's Dept. of Statistics.
Date:
2003 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAfrican American college teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Bayesian statistical decision theory
Information theory -- Mathematics
Mathematicians -- California -- Berkeley
Professeurs noirs américains (Enseignement supérieur) -- Californie -- Berkeley -- Entretiens
Théorie de la décision bayésienne
Théorie de l'information -- Mathématiques
Mathématiciens -- Californie -- Berkeley
African American college teachers
Bayesian statistical decision theory
Information theory -- Mathematics
Mathematicians
California -- Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Statistics.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Statistics
Note:
David Blackwell. Interviews conducted by Nadine Wilmot in 2002 and 2003. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the African American faculty and senior staff oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3656 C:1-11.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (v, 160 pages) : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
11 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.