Models of My Life

Part I Journey to a 21st birthday: the boy in Wisconsin forests and fields education in Chicago encounter with a scientific revolution - political science at Chicago. Part II The scientist as a young man: a taste of research - the City Managers' Association managing research - Berkeley teaching at Illinois Tech a matter of loyalty building a business school - the Graduate School of Industrial Administration research and science politics mazes without minotaurs roots of artificial intelligence climbing the mountain - artificial intelligence achieved. Part III View from the mountain: exploring the plain personal threads in the warp creating a university environment for cognitive science and A.I. on being argumentative the student troubles the scientist as politician foreign adventures. Part IV Research after 60: from Nobel to now the amateur diplomat in China and the Soviet Union guides for choice. Afterword: the scientist as problem solver.