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John
Nelson Warfield Professor Emeritus jnwarfield@aol.com http://www.jnwarfield.com Education Ph. D. in Electrical Communications, Purdue University M. S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri (Columbia) B. S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri (Columbia) B.A. (A.B.), University of Missouri (Columbia) Biography John N. Warfield is University Professor Emeritus and Laureate from George Mason University, where he is affiliated with the School of Public Policy. He completed 41 years of university faculty service, 16 years of which were at GMU. He spent 23 years as a faculty member in Virginia, earning the designation of "eminent scholar" in the Virginia system. He has 10 years of industrial experience, including theoretical and experimental research, electronic development and reliability testing of navigational equipment for jet aircraft. In addition he has management experience in overseeing research projects and industry-university contracts. He served as elected President of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has served as elected President of the Society for General Systems Research. He served nine years as founding editor of Systems and four years as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. He is the author of 2 U. S. patents on electronic equipment, and is the inventor of Interpretive Structural Modeling, Interactive Management, Generic Design Science and the Complexicon: a comprehensive institution for resolving complexity. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Process Science and is the sole author of six books. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers. His most recent publications are the 2002 book titled Understanding Complexity: Thought and Behavior and the 2003 book titled The Mathematics of Structure. He is currently completing his latest book titled An Introduction to Systems Science . Areas of Expertise
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