Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Anatol Rapoport

Apparently, Anatol Rapoport died over the weekend. (I can only find this subscription-only story in a Canadian newspaper as verification). In 1984 he came up with the tit-for-tat strategy for Robert Axelrod's iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament.
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1 comment:

Anthony Rapoport said...

A more detailed obituary, with some discussion of his work in decision theory, appeared in today's Globe and Mail. The link to the full text is:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070131.OBRAPO31/EmailTPStory/

4:40 PM

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