Frank P. Ramsey Medal

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

The Frank P. Ramsey medal is awarded for distinguished contributions in decision analysis. Distinguished contributions can be internal, such as theoretical or procedural advances in decision analysis, or external, such as developing or spreading decision analysis in new fields. 

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About the Award/Namesake

Frank Plumpton Ramsey was the first to express an operational theory of decision-making based on the dual, intertwining notions of judgmental probability and utility. In his essay "truth and Probability" in 1926, Ramsey adopted what is now termed the decision-theoretic point of view. To Ramsey, probability was an expression of a degree of belief interpreted as operationally meaningful in terms of a willingness to act based on that belief...

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Past Awardees

2024
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Samuel E. Bodily, University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business
2023
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David V. Budescu, Fordham University
2022
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Ahti Salo, Aalto University
2021
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Robert F. Bordley, Professor of Engineering Practice and director of the Systems Engineering and Design Program within the Integrative Sciences Division in the College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2020
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Milton Weinstein, Harvard University, School of Public Health
2019
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Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Aalto University School of Science
2018
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Max Henrion, Lumina Decision Systems
2017
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Simon French
2016
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Vicki Bier
2015
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L. Robin Keller, University of California - Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business
2014
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Gregory S. Parnell
2013
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Peter P. Wakker, Erasmus University
2012
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Robert T. Clemen, Duke University
2011
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Don N. Kleinmuntz
2010
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Elisabeth Paté-Cornell , Stanford University
2009
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Rakesh Sarin, University of California - Los Angeles
2008
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James E. Smith, Duke University
2007
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Craig W. Kirkwood, Dept. of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University
2006
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Amos Tversky, Stanford University
Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University
2005
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Lawrence D. Phillips, Facilitations Limited
2004
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Carl S. Spetzler, Strategic Decisions Group
2003
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R. Duncan Luce, University of California - Irvine
2002
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James S. Dyer, University of Texas - Austin
2001
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David E. Bell, Harvard University
2000
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Detlof von Winterfeldt, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
1999
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John W. Pratt, Harvard Business School
1997
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D. Warner North, NorthWorks Inc.
1996
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Irving H. LaValle, Tulane University
1995
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James E. Matheson, SmartOrg Inc.
1992
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Robert Schlaifer, Harvard University
1990
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Robert L. Winkler, Duke University
1989
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Ralph L. Keeney, USC
1988
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Ward Edwards, University of Southern California
1987
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Peter C. Fishburn
1986
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Ronald A. Howard, Stanford University, Dept. of Management Science & Engineering
1985
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Howard Raiffa, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration