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3 unusual facts about Gibbard


Gibbard

Phil Gibbard (born 1949), Professor of Quaternary Palaeoenvironments, University of Cambridge

Les Gibbard (1945–2010), political cartoonist, journalist, illustrator

Allan Gibbard (born 1942), Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan


Allan Gibbard

In 2009, Gibbard became one of three living philosophers to be elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem

The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, named after Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, is a result about the deterministic voting systems that choose a single winner using only the preferences of the voters, where each voter ranks all candidates in order of preference.

Know by Heart

Gibbard later covered the song "Choir Vandals" on Home Series Vol. V, a split EP with The American Analog Set's own Andrew Kenny.

Les Gibbard

Gibbard was born in Kaiapoi, New Zealand; he grew up in New Zealand and learnt his trade under the tutelage of Gordon Minhinnick (himself influenced by David Low), a former political cartoonist with the New Zealand Herald.


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