Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's final decision

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Danny Kahneman spent his life thinking about how humans make decisions.  His final decision was to travel to Switzerland to avail himself of...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Kevin Sontheimer (1938-2025)

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 My old friend and colleague Kevin Sontheimer has died.  He was a great leader of Pitt’s economics department when I was there, not just w...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Donald Shoup (1938-2025) led the war on (too much) free parking

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 Here's his WSJ obit: Donald Shoup, a Parking Guru Who Reshaped the Urban Landscape, Dies at 86 An economist at UCLA, Shoup said free pa...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Civil service in the United States, RIP (1883-2025)

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Civil service in the U.S. may not be dead yet, but it's suffering from potentially lethal attacks. The Pendleton Act of 1883 establishe...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, (1930-2025)

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 Here's the NYT obit: Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94 His own experience assisting his terminally ill...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Diane Coleman, Fierce Foe of the Right-to-Die Movement, (1953-2024)

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 A courageous, long-lived disability-rights activist who made an eloquent case against medical aid in dying has died. Diane Coleman, Fierce ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The year in passings

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  More reminders of mortality. Friday, March 8, 2024 Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantat...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

KENNETH ARROW’S LAST THEOREM by Paul Milgrom

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  Here's a fitting tribute to Ken Arrow, who died in 2017, in the special issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design in H...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

A medically aided death in New Jersey: Pat Koch Thaler

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 Following a full life, a peaceful end. Pat Koch Thaler, Sister to a Famed Mayor, Chose to Die on a Saturday Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N....
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Remembering Jim Simons

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  Here's the memorial page from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Remembering Jim Simons HT: Vijay Vazirani ########### E...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Danny Kahneman, remembered by Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024: Nobel Prize Winner & CASBS Legend "Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel laureate, professor emeritus of psycholo...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

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  The eminent primatologist Frans de Waal has passed away. Here's a memoriam from Emory University: Emory primatologist Frans de Waal re...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Richard Slayman: first recipient of pig kidney transplant dies after two months. (RIP)

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 Here's the story from the Guardian: Pig kidney ‘xenotransplant’ patient dies two months later . No indication that Richard ‘Rick’ Slaym...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Jim Simons (1938-2024)

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  Jim Simons, the great investor and philanthropist of math and computer science, died yesterday. Here's the announcement from the Simo...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Danny Kahneman (1934-2024)

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  Danny Kahneman passed away today. Here's the Washington Post obituary: Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90. He found...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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  The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The year in passings

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Another year, more memories and memorials: Sunday, January 29, 2023 Paul David (1935-2023) Monday, January 30, 2023 Tonya Ingram (1991-2022)...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Who Shall Live? (3rd edition) by Victor R. Fuchs and Karen Eggleston

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Shortly before he passed away in September at the age of 99, Vic Fuchs finished the third edition of his book Who Shall Live? , now with a c...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Memorial service for Vic Fuchs

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  Yesterday, at Etz Chayim Synagogue,  Palo Alto. Here is my brief eulogy: Vic was the patriarch of a clan, and a man of wide and old friend...