prestigious award goes to an interval researcher

[David Hough]

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 14:21:21 MDT
From: vladikacs.utep.edu (Vladik Kreinovich)
To: reliable_computingainterval.usl.edu
Subject: prestigious award goes to an interval researcher

Peter Fishburn, a pioneer in application of intervals to decision making, 
receives von Neumann prize.

Peter C. Fishburn, researcher from the Lucent Bell Laboratories 
(formerly, AT&T Bell Labs) has been awarded the 1996 John von Neumann
Prize, the highest prize given in the field of operations research
and management science. This prize was awarded by the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences to Fishburn ``for his
remarkable, extensive, and seminal contributions to the fields of
individual and group choice under uncertainty". 

Among other methods, Fishburn pioneered the use of intervals in decision
making, first in his 1964 book 
``Decision and Value Theory" (Wiley, N.Y.) and, then, in his seminal
monograph ``Interval orders and interval graphs", Wiley, N.Y., 1985.