Glenn Shafer has been a university educator for 50 years. He is still best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the Dempster-Shafer theory, an alternative theory of probability that has been applied widely in engineering and artificial intelligence. There is a society devoted to the advancement of this theory, the Belief Functions and Applications Society, which has been holding international conferences since 2010. Glenn is also known for his initiation, with Vladimir Vovk, of the game-theoretic framework for probability. Their first book on the topic was Probability and Finance: It's Only a Game! A new book on the topic, Game-Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance, appeared in May 2019 (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ). Many related working papers are posted at www.probabilityandfinance.com.
Glenn has also contributed to the history of probability and statistics, publishing more than twenty papers on the topic and translating many others from French. His most recent ...
