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From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
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Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
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Date: 6 Jan 90 02:23:00 GMT
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In article <10245@zodiac.ADS.COM> levitt@saturn.ADS.COM (Tod Levitt) writes:

>It's my understanding that the Delphi method of reaching consensus (for a
>group of humans) was developed by Professor Norman Dalkey, now at UCLA. It
>was not specifically aimed at "predicting the future". In fact, the research
>was funded, I believe, by DoD, for use in policy making. 

Specifically, Professor Dalkey was codeveloper of Delphi while
a senior mathematician at the Rand Corporation. Still an active
researcher in 1990, he received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1942!

-- Brad