ABSTRACT
This chapter begins discussion of the academic research that—along with my family—has absorbed most of my life energy. My senior thesis in college had been serious research in an academic mode, though in psychology. The experiment I conducted on improving pistol shooting among the Marines also was professional in attitude and practice. Later, my Ph.D. thesis was a many-sided piece of work, but I thought of it more as operations research than as “pure” academic research, and I had done it as a job rather than because I chose the problem for its inherent fascination and theoretical importance. But now research was to be my life, not just casual amateur work or a for payjob.
