The past Seven Years: 1988-95

Tn 1989 my then scientific autobiography (Luce, 1989) concluded: "At that point [early 19881 T did take early retirement from Harvard, but the next five to ten years promise not t o be idle." These few pages take up the ensuing seven years, which indeed have not been idle. (Perhaps the problem is that l've never taken up golf.) For example, 32 papers have appeared in journals and book chapters, half a dozen are in various pre-publication stages, and three books have appeared: the much belated volumes I1 and 111 of the Foundat ions of Measurement (Luce, Krantz, Suppes, & Tversky, 1990; Suppes, Krantz, Luce, & Tversky, 1989) and a textbook, based on the core course give11 a t Harvard and repeated several times a t UCI, Sound €9 Hearing (Luce, 1993). Although favorably reviewed, it has not spawned the courses I had hoped it might.