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19441940s
Oskar Morgenstern
Economist who co-founded game theory with John von Neumann, giving AI its language for rational agents.
Organizations
Princeton UniversityUniversity of Vienna
Major Achievements
- •Co-wrote 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior' (1944) with John von Neumann, founding game theory as a discipline.
- •Formalised utility and strategic choice, the framework later AI would use to define a rational agent.
- •His work underlies multi-agent systems, mechanism design, and the decision theory in modern AI textbooks.
Key Papers
- Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern · Princeton University Press · 1944