American Society for Cybernetics
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The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is an American non-profit scholastic
organization
for organization for the advancement of cybernetics
as a science
and the interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis of cybernetics. The society contributes to the cooperation around the research and development of cybernetics methods and techniques to manage complex systems
.
In order to do so it holds conferences and seminars, and maintains contacts with cyberneticians and organizations for cybernetics in other countries. Further activities of the ASC are:
The American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964 in Washington, DC to encourage new developments in cybernetics as a interdisciplinary field with Warren McCulloch as first elected president of the ASC. In the 1980s ASC became a member of the International Federation for Systems Research
, and begin 1990s supported the Principia Cybernetica
Project. Since 1995 the home office for the ASC is located at the George Washington University
.
School
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organization
Organization
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for organization for the advancement of cybernetics
Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to information theory, control theory and systems theory, at least in its first-order form...
as a science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and the interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis of cybernetics. The society contributes to the cooperation around the research and development of cybernetics methods and techniques to manage complex systems
Complex systems
Complex systems present problems in mathematical modelling.The equations from which complex system models are developed generally derive from statistical physics, information theory and non-linear dynamics, and represent organized but unpredictable behaviors of systems of nature that are considered...
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In order to do so it holds conferences and seminars, and maintains contacts with cyberneticians and organizations for cybernetics in other countries. Further activities of the ASC are:
- ASC Glossary on Cybernetics and Systems Theory
- Disciplinary Matrices in Cybernetics and Systems Science
- Wiener and McCulloch awards
The American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964 in Washington, DC to encourage new developments in cybernetics as a interdisciplinary field with Warren McCulloch as first elected president of the ASC. In the 1980s ASC became a member of the International Federation for Systems Research
International Federation for Systems Research
The International Federation for Systems Research is an international federation for global and local societies in the field of systems science...
, and begin 1990s supported the Principia Cybernetica
Principia Cybernetica
Principia Cybernetica is an international cooperation of scientists in the field of cybernetics and systems science, especially known for their Principia Cybernetica Web website...
Project. Since 1995 the home office for the ASC is located at the George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
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Past ASC presidents
- 2009- Ranulph GlanvilleRanulph GlanvilleRanulph Glanville is a British freelance researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics.- Biography :Glanville studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1964 to 1971...
- 2005-2008 Louis KauffmanLouis KauffmanLouis H. Kauffman is an American mathematician, topologist, and professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
- 2002-2004 Allenna LeonardAllenna LeonardAllenna Leonard is an American cyberneticist, consultant and Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Canada, internationally, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration.- Biography :...
- 1999-2001 Pille Bunnell
- 1994-1998 Frank Galuszka
- 1992-1993 Rodney Donaldson
- 1989-1991 Fred Steier
- 1986-1988 Laurence Richards
- 1984-1985 Jon Cunnyngham
- 1983-1984 Bill Reckmeyer
- 1980-1982 Stuart UmplebyStuart UmplebyStuart Anspach Umpleby is an American cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington University....
- 1978-1979 Barry Clemson
- 1976-1977 Mark Ozer
- 1975-1976 Herbert Robinson
- 1972-1974 Roy Hermann
- 1970-1971 Carl Hammer
- 1969-1970 Lawrence J. FogelLawrence J. FogelDr. Lawrence J. Fogel , was a pioneer in evolutionary computation and human factors analysis. He is known as the father of evolutionary programming. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he earned his B.E.E. from New York University in 1948, M.S. from Rutgers University in 1952 and Ph.D...
- 1967-1968 Warren McCulloch
- 1964-1966 Paul Henshaw
Wiener and McCulloch awards
The "Wiener Medal in Cybernetics" is an annual award by the American Society for Cybernetics in recognition of outstanding achievements or contributions in the field of cybernetics. Since 2005 the award has been redefined to recognize achievements and contributions from younger scholars and researchers working in cybernetics or with applications of cybernetics. Recipients of the Wiener and McCulloch awards:- 1968: Robert C. Wood
- 1968: Warren McCulloch
- 1969: Stuart A. Kauffman
- 1969: Stephen GrossbergStephen GrossbergStephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, mathematician, and neuromorphic technologist. He is the Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.Grossberg's work...
- 1970: Stafford Beer
- 1972: Natalia Bechtereva
- 1983: Heinz von FoersterHeinz von FoersterHeinz von Foerster was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cybernetics.-Biography:Von Foerster was born in 1911 in Vienna, Austria,...
- 1984: Gregory BatesonGregory BatesonGregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...
- 1984: Gordon PaskGordon PaskAndrew Gordon Speedie Pask was an English cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology....
- 1986: Humberto MaturanaHumberto MaturanaHumberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. He is considered a member of the second wave of cybernetics, known for developing a theory of autopoiesis about the nature of reflexive feedback control in living systems.- Biography :After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de...
- 1993: Herbert BrunHerbert BrunHerbert Brün was a composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired, several years before his death.-Career:...
- 1993: Louis KauffmanLouis KauffmanLouis H. Kauffman is an American mathematician, topologist, and professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
- 2001: Klaus KrippendorffKlaus KrippendorffKlaus Krippendorff Frankfurt am Main, is the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.- Overview :...
- 2005: Ernst von GlasersfeldErnst von GlasersfeldErnst von Glasersfeld was a philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
- 2007: Pille Bunnell
- 2007: Charles FrançoisCharles FrançoisCharles François, , is a Belgian administrator, editor and scientist in the field of cybernetics, systems theory and systems science, internationally known for his main work the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.- Biography :...
- 2007: Laurence Richards
- 2007: Stuart UmplebyStuart UmplebyStuart Anspach Umpleby is an American cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington University....
- 2008: Humberto MaturanaHumberto MaturanaHumberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. He is considered a member of the second wave of cybernetics, known for developing a theory of autopoiesis about the nature of reflexive feedback control in living systems.- Biography :After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de...
- 2008: Francisco VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
- 2008: Ricardo Uribe
- 2008: Richard Jung
- 2008: Lars Löfgren
- 2008: Søren Brier
- 2008: Alexander Riegler
External links
- ASC website
- The ASC Glossary of Cybernetics by the American Society for Cybernetics