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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.

2. In the prisoner's dilemma, what do both criminals have to do in order to be set free by the police?

3. In what country did von Neumann earn his PhD in mathematics?

4. Game theory as developed by von Neumann revolutionized a variety of fields not just mathematics, but economics, biology and ___.

5. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Merrill Flood observe and conclude about his RAND colleagues as they left California at the end of summer?

2. Who is Merrill Flood?

3. How did the Nash equilibrium strategy affect the prisoner's dilemma game model?

4. How is Kriegspiel different from Chess or Tic-tac-toe?

5. Why did Russell and von Neumann advocate preventative war during the Cold War?

6. What was the Manhattan Project?

7. Why do Poker and Baseball involve mixed strategies?

8. Why was von Neumann considered the "best brain in the world?"

9. Who helped Flood conduct his 100 prisoner's dilemmas experiments?

10. What are the details of one of the ethical dilemmas described in Chapter 1 of "Prisoner's Dilemma"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In real life dollar auctions the author writes about how many a justifiable action, in looking back, becomes the first "defection" in an escalating dilemma. How can you penalize the first bidder for not wanting to waste the "ninety-nine cent profit?" In relation to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union what was the defection? Why was there a defection and how did this dilemma escalate as both sides designed more and more nuclear weapons?

Essay Topic 2

What were some of the key factors in the establishment of the RAND Corporation? What significant milestones from this place connect with von Neumann, as well as the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union? Why was RAND known for thinking about the unthinkable?

Essay Topic 3

In the 1980s game theory took an unexpected turn and evolutionary game theory was born. How did this happen? What was the logic behind the development of this theory? Aspects of what disciplines were used to create this evolutionary model? How did Robert Axelrod introduce a strategy based in human psychology to the traditional problem found in game theory?

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