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Robert Duncan Luce (born May 16, 1925) is the Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Luce received a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945, and PhD in Mathematics from the same university in 1950. He began his professorial career at Columbia University in 1954, where he was an assistant professor in mathematical statistics and sociology. Following a lecturership at Harvard University from 1957 to 1959, he became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959, and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Professorship of Psychology in 1968. After visiting the Institute for Advanced Study beginning in 1969, he joined the UC Irvine faculty in 1972, but returned to Harvard in 1976 as Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Psychology and then later as Victor S. Thomas Professor of Psychology. Retiring from Harvard in 1988, Luce rejoined the UC Irvine faculty as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences and (from 1988 to 1998) director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UCI. He received the 2003 National Medal of Science in behavioral and social science for his contributions to the field of mathematical psychology.
References
- A Lifetime of Calculating Choices. Stephanie Bowen, The Social Science Journal, UC Irvine, 2004.
- Duncan Luce as a Measurement Theorist. Patrick Suppes, in Choice, Decision and Measurement (A. A. J. Marley, ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997, pp. 103–109.
- Decision Science Researcher Profile: Duncan Luce Awarded 2003 Medal of Science, Decision Science News, 2005.
- Curriculum vitae
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