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Force Majeure / /
Facility
Carnegie Institute of Technology / Institute of Radio Engineers / /
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few systems / random search / rare gas / parallel information-processing system / earlier solution / free energy / steel wire / transportation systems / chemical sub-groups / physico-chemical aspects / biological systems / blind trial-and-error search / hierarchic complex systems / trial-and-error search / non-hierarchic systems / reaction products / biological and physical systems / planetary systems / mathematical systems / large stable political systems / energy / few dynamic systems / large systems / satellite systems / closed systems / social systems / hierarchic systems / adaptive systems / telephone wires / high-energy / physical systems / deconiposable systems / coillplex systems / larger systems / /
Organization
Institute of Radio Engineers / Ford Foundation / Cambridge Univ. / Univ. of Illinois Press / Cornell Univ. / Appendix / Institute of Technology / Univ. of Chicago Press / Society for General Systems Research / Princeton Univ. / /
Person
John R. Platt / Richard H. Meier / Allen Xewell / HERBERT A. SIMON / Alexander / L. Pauling / George Allen / William Wise / Andrew Schoene / Warren Weaver / /
Position
architect / watchmaker / general systems theory / scientist / General / linguist / Professor of Administration / nuclear physicist / Fisher / working biologist / chemist / and physicist / /
T H E ARCHITECTURE O F COMPLEXITY HERBERT A. SIMON* Professor of Administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology (Read April 26, A N U M B E R of proposals have been advanced in