Peter C. Fishburn

Peter C. Fishburn

Peter C. Fishburn (born 1936) is known as a pioneer in the field of decision making processes.

He received his B.S. in Industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1958, his M.S. in Operations Research in 1961, and a Ph.D in Operations Research in 1962, the latter two from the Case Institute of Technology.

In collaboration with Steven Brams, he devised Approval voting in 1977. In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Prize.

He has retired after many years of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the state of New Jersey, United States. He is married to the theologian, Janet Forsythe Fishburn.

He has an Erdös number of 1. [http://www.oakland.edu/enp/Erdos1]

External links

* [http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb/fishbib.pdf Bibliography of Peter Fishburn's publications]

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