@article{f7f76907500d45eba73cb4a780c09868,
title = "A Mathematical Theory of Evidence turns 40",
abstract = "The book that launched the Dempster–Shafer theory of belief functions appeared 40 years ago. This intellectual autobiography looks back on how I came to write the book and how its ideas played out in my later work.",
keywords = "Belief functions, Causality, Dempster–Shafer theory, Game-theoretic probability",
author = "Glenn Shafer",
note = "Funding Information: My visit at SRI was funded by Enrique Ruspini's grant from the Air Force. Others in Garvey's group included Lowrance and Tom Strat. I encountered e-mail for the first time there; it was fun and sometimes even useful, even when my correspondents were down the hall. Funding Information: I could now attract federal and corporate funding well beyond the summer-salary grants I had been receiving since I became an assistant professor at Princeton. When Ron Yager became a program officer at the National Science Foundation, he telephoned me out of the blue to urge me to apply for a larger grant. Additional funding came from the business school's Ronald G. Harper Chair in artificial intelligence, to which I was appointed in 1988. In 1971, Harper had launched a business using an algorithm he learned as an MBA student at Kansas to locate retail outlets. His methodology became steadily more complex, and by the 1980s he was advertising it as artificial intelligence. When he took his business public, he donated funds for the school to endow a chair in artificial intelligence. A national search led to the conclusion that I was better qualified to fill it than anyone else the school could recruit. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2016",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.ijar.2016.07.009",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "79",
pages = "7--25",
journal = "International Journal of Approximate Reasoning",
issn = "0888-613X",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
}