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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: October 7, 1994 10:45 AM Friday; Rod Welch

Called on status of research on POIMS book.

1...Summary/Objective
...................As we may think


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Peter J. Wasilko, Law Offices                                                                                                                                      O-00000559 0101
020101 - Mr. Peter J. Wasilko, Esq. JD, LL M

SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Advertising
New World Order needs old time "religion"
POIMS, the Art of Automated Management for
General
Educational Institutions
Book (uses manual language)

0808 -
0808 -    ..
0809 - Summary/Objective
0810 -
081001 - Follow up ref SDS 20 0000.
081002 -
081003 - Peter is working on POIMS.  Feels the concepts in POIMS extend and
081004 - implement many long-standing ideas in management and research that
081005 - have been beyond reach of technology.
081007 -  ..
081008 - Peter feels POIMS complements an article by Vanivar Bush, published in
081009 - Atlantic Monthly July 1945 p. 101 108.
081010 -
081011 -                   As we may think
081013 -  ..
081014 - Peter indicated that Bush anticipated problems in 1945 of information
081015 - density caused by faster technology, which the POIMS design addresses
081016 - by converting information into useful knowledge.
081017 -
081018 -         [On 960304 reviewed As We May Think in researching the history
081019 -         of digital computers; seems to have some common ground with
081020 -         SDS design. ref SDS 21 L47F
081022 -  ..
081023 - Peter seems excited about the prospect writing about POIMS, but
081024 - commented that I may not agree with his writing style or his vision.
081025 - He wants to submit an article to Atlantic Monthly that updates
081026 - Vannevar Bush's vision from 1945.
081028 -  ..
081029 - We considered review on 940603 of Gio Widerhold's work at Stanford on
081030 - AI.  It was extensively researched and footnoted, but did not offer
081031 - anything useful. ref SDS 3 9861
081033 -  ..
081034 - Additionally, collaborations can result in personality conflicts, per
081035 - discussion with Bill Davidow on 940804. ref SDS 15 BX8G
081037 -  ..
081038 - Peter plans to submit his comments to Susan Thomas and Dave Wilemon,
081039 - as well as another colleage, prior to sending them to me.  Sounds like
081040 - he expects to complete his review by next week, so I may get it the
081041 - week after that.
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