David Blackwell
David Blackwell
David Harold Blackwellwas Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Born in Centralia, Illinois, he was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley...
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When he said 'Clemson,' the room erupted. It was an exciting moment.
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I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
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Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.
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We're awfully pleased to have another tool in the arsenal. Such a large number of people continue to have seizures despite treatment. For people with difficulty to control seizures, it is important to have access to a comprehensive epilepsy center.
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(Vintage) was undefeated and had scored about 45 points per game, and we held them to six, so we did pretty well.
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When you look at the teams we were recruiting against and you look at the quality of player, I would think it would be hard not to be excited about it and impressed with it.
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He's been on kickoff coverage before and done a good job of it, and I've been looking for a way to get him out there. Playing defense now, he's shown that he'll stick his face in there and hit.
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Our expectations are very high. The hardest thing for kick return teams is when you're constant..
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It's not the end-all if we don't get them here for junior day, as long as we can get them on campus. The more times you get a young man on campus ... they develop a little bit of a comfort zone with the university.
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It was a great football game. (The Crushers) scored on their first drive, but we held them after that.
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That's always the worst thing to lose one.
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The fax machine had been unplugged at the other end.