Constraint Theory, Parts I, II and III

Summary: Pending
Sent to George Mason University in year 2000, a copy of this paper found in boxes of John's saved papers, John marked it on his list "SBSOC" meaning Structure Bound(sp?) Science of Complexity, a paper to use as reference on this topic and to save for use by future students. Written while Friedman, the primary author was a graduate student, this paper was submitted to the IEEE journal at the time Warfield was editor. Cornelius Leondes was the one who wrote to John, recommending the paper and asking him to publish even though the paper was extremely long. John's comment to Rose was that he studied the paper carefully and decided it was a great piece of work, wrote back to the author, suggesting that if they would condense the paper somewhat, and also split the paper into three parts that he would publish it in the IEEE journal. John also recommended to IEEE that they consider it for a "Best Paper" Award for the year, for IEEE members under 30 years old. IEEE did consider it, and Friedman did get the award. Cornelius was a well know controls expert, a professor at UCLA at the time this was written, and he was Friedman's dissertation advisor. John says that Friedman did most of the work on the paper, exactly how much he does not know. [In 1995, Warfield wrote an index for Friedman's 1967 dissertation (from which this IEEE journal article was taken), in an effort to assist graduate students and others in understanding Constraint Theory, and in bringing Friedman's fundamental ideas into wider use. Warfield's 29 page index is topical, and lists 686 terms as used by Friedman in the dissertation. There are also 19 terms listed without page numbers*, presumably because Warfield knew they were there but couldn't find them later and had to quit without paging them, since our office has no scanner or other tool for search besides John's eyeballs. Friedman's 336 page dissertation* was at one time available on microfilm or photocopy, from UMI Dissertation Services, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since then UMI became a part of Proquest, and in August 2010 the dissertation is available from Dissertation Express, ProQuest, Ann Arbor, MI . Order Number ATT 6716012. http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/disexpress.shtml] * As of Sept 2011 Rose still has a copy of Friedman's dissertation, on bookshelf.

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