Super User
IM Certification
A list of the five different levels of certification and approximately 26 different tasks or capabilities that should be mastered by the student. Part of an unfinished project. See also, “WPOC Certification & Additional Source Material,” “IM Certification References to Source Material.”
Sullivan High School Class of '42
Scanned copies of mementos Warfield saved from a high school reunion attended in June 1992. Includes class picture, 1942 commencement program in which Warfield was top ranking senior, picture of high school building, and list of names of all his classmates.
The Mathematics of Structure Figures
Scanned copies of figures printed in Mathematics of Structure.
Computer Search Engine Data
Warfield’s reference list on the definition of the term “systems.”
Abstract: The Philosophy of Science According to Charles S. Peirce
A one-page overview of Charles Sanders Peirce’s career and is used as a preface for a set of transparencies. See, “Peirce Quotes.”
Vickers, Foucault, and Peirce: Imagined Conversations on Systems Programs
Unfinished paper. An imaginary conversation between Vickers, Foucault and Peirce on the topic of system studies as it is practiced in modern universities.
Bridging Chasms: Starting With Software Design
Unfinished paper. A discussion of the ways in which Interpretive Structural Modeling can lead to the development of more efficient and higher quality software. Notes that what is convenient for a software designer is often at odds with what is convenient for the user of the software.
Using ISM to Develop Time Maps of Activity
Explanation of the math connected with writing part of the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) software that can be used for assigning personnel and budgeting in a manufacturing or other activity. Incudes technical discussion of need for transitivity in design of the software.
Sentences for Outline
Fifteen short paragraphs with captions, in bulleted list followed by about 10 topics listed with no sentences attached. First topic "The 1950's as Springboard Decade." Last topic "The Federal Education Bureaucracy and its Impact on Higher Education."
Von Foerster's First Law
A single transparency with a well-known quote from Heinz von Foerster.