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China Talks CD-2002: Files for Complexity Seminars
These are files on a compact disk loaded with teaching and lecturing aids, mostly PowerPoint slides but also articles on economics and lists and indexes of topics and keywords, which Warfield prepared before he departed for China to give a series of lectures. He carried the disk with him on the trip to use as reference during lectures.
Archie Bahm to John Warfield
Archie Bahm suggests a number of sources for finding information on Charles S. Peirce.
Parker-Hannefin Workshop and Correspondence
An Interactive Management Workshop took place 8-10 August 2007 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sponsored by Parker-Hannifin Corporation. Includes emails to/from Warfield, Ben Broome, Steve Krane, Jack Ring, Scott Staley, Phil Ernzen, Carmen Moreno. See notes field for further details on the origin of the Workshop.
Correspondence with Andre Gabus
Letters discussing the death of one of Warfield’s old friends, along with an article that listed ISM as “theoretical” and that did not utilize Warfield’s work.
History of Donation of Warfield Collection to GMU and ASU libraries
A series of 41 emails discussing the possibility of archiving Warfield’s papers along with a one-page document that reconstructs the final decision on where to house the papers.
Status of books sent gratis from John Warfield
Letters of acknowledgement from persons who received a donated copy of An Introduction to Systems Science.
John Warfield to Kasey Webrum, INC Magazine reporter
Correspondence between Warfield and Kasey Webrum, a reporter for Inc Magazine regarding Warfield’s contributions to their letters column. Includes copy of Scott Staley’s article on Application of Interactive Management to Ford Motor Company, which had appeared in Systems Science.
John Warfield to Rosalind Reid
Warfield likely wrote this letter to Reid, editor of American Scientist, an interdisciplinary magazine of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, as part of an effort to promote and advertise Interactive Management.
John Warfield to United States National Science Foundation
Warfield wrote this letter in support of a proposal from George J. Freidman on the development of constraint theory as a more useful toll in the management of multi-dimensional mathematical models.
John Warfield to Carl F. Kohrt President Battelle Memorial Institute