American Society for Cybernetics
| Presentations Listed by Panel Listed below are the conference symposia. Within each panel are the presentation titles and links to the abstracts papers and slides. Click a link to view the speaker’s abstract, paper, and presentation materials.Booklet |
Tutorial
Cybernetics — Social Activism in Everyday Life
Larry Richards
Conversation
Fundamentals/Essentials/Premises (system, observation, change, structure, process, invariance, feedback)
Larry Richards
Keynote Addresses
Global E-Learning for Global Peace (Slides)
Takeshi Utsumi
Similarities and Differences among the Sub-fields of Cybernetics and Systems Theory (Paper) (Slides) (Video)
Eric Dent
Reflexivity in Social Systems: An Introduction to the Theories of George Soros (Paper) (Slides)
Stuart Umpleby
Types of Systems and Models of Them (Slides)
Russell Ackoff
Language in the Constitution of Social Systems (Slides)
Klaus Krippendorff
Relationships between Demographic Changes and Cultural Transmission (Slides)
Mary Catherine Bateson
From Second Order Cybernetics to Second Order Science (Slides)
Karl Muller
Knowledge and Design in the Era of Second-Order Cybernetics
Ranulph Glanville
The Oral Tradition
Ranulph Glanville
Thought about Thought: Twenty-four Centuries of Now and Then Development and the Consequences (Slides)
John Warfield
Constructivism, History and Performance
Past, Present and Future of Radical Constructivism
Alexander Riegler
How (Radical) Constructivism Emerged from Cybernetics and Other Fields of Science: Some Historical Remarks
Albert Muller
RC – The Hidden Agenda. New Research Directions from Old Texts (Slides)
Karl Muller
Enactive Cognitive Science
Kevin McGee
From Observer to Creator
Gebhard Rusch
Construction, Design, and Knowledge
Ranulph Glanville
Could it be More Different? Radical Constructivism Applied to Physics Teaching (Paper)
Dewey Dykstra
A Brief Overview: The Early Days of Cybernetics
Howard Eisner
Control Information Theory: The Missing Link in Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics
Peter Corning
A Cybernetician’s View of Quantum Theory: Three Possible Views
Ely Dorsey
Facing the Power of the Respondent
Mark Enslin
Management
Applying the Technology of Participation in an Authoritarian Culture (Slides)
Wenjun Du and Jixuan Hu
Four Dimensional Systems Thinking and Corporate Cultural Change: Three Prescriptions are Better than One
Jixuan Hu and Wenjun Du
Time and Requisite Variety: Lessons from Project Management (Slides)
Frank Anbari and Stuart Umpleby
From Local Infoset to Global Infonet – the Extension of Team Syntegrity
Joe Truss and Chris Cullen
Organizational Cybernetics — The Next Stage
Paul A. Stokes
A Viable System Model Analysis of the Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation: Does It Meet the Variety Challenge?
Allenna Leonard
The Opportunity of Open Source
Lisa Kimball and Tom Mandel
Epistemology and Mathematics
Quantum Categories
Lou Kauffman
Is Quantum Epistemology Epistemic?
Ely Dorsey
Quantum Bios (Paper)
Hector Sabelli and Lazar Kovacevic.
Biotic Processes in the Schrodinger Equation
Gerald H. Thomas, Hector Sabelli, and Lou Kauffman
Sign/Space — Eigenform
Lou Kauffman
A New Mathematical Notation for the Chemical Sciences and Its Implication for Biocybernetics and Nanotechnology
Jerry Chandler.
Biotic Feedback: Priority and Supremacy in Nature, Science, and Society (Paper)
Hector Sabelli.
Notational Systems and Cognitive Evolution (Paper)
Jeff Long.
Therapy and Neurofeedback
Can We Trust Our Traditional Language? (Paper)
Andy Hilgartner
The Egg, Chicken and Rooster: Designing Triadic Relations When Doing Cybernetics
Judy Lombardi
Family Learning in Community Science Centers
Fred Steier
The Family as a Force Field or as Pattern Generator (Slides)
Andrea Maloney-Schara, Kathy Wiseman, and Joan Lartin-Drake
Non-Linear, Dynamical and Other Advanced Visualization Techniques in EEG: Gabor and Adaptive Transforms
Valdeane Brown
Information Systems
Leveraging Collaborative Technologies for Sharing Tacit Knowledge: An Integrative Model
Vikas Sahasrabudhe and Subhasish Dasgupta
Synergy of Knowledge and Values Management by Combining the USOMID and Six Hats Methodologies
Matjaz Mulej
Cybernetics as a Theoretical Base for Information Systems Research
Shivraj Kanungo
User Interface Design — An Experimental Study Abstract (Slides)
John Pourdehnad, et al.
Organizational Network Alignment (Slides)
Kent Myers
The Potential for Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries (Paper)
Edward Cherian
Social Systems
The Nature and Use of Systems of Systems Approaches in Public Policy-Making and Program Management. (Slides)
William Reckmeyer
Genesis of a Chain of Thought. (Paper)
Henry Alberts
Fuzzy Set Theoretic Framework for Representing Uncertainty due to Vagueness and Imprecision in Knowledge Representation (Paper)
David Anyiwo
A discussion of the work of the Cultural Strategies Institute which is based on the theories of Gregory Bateson
Lowell Christy, Catherine Bateson, and Bill Smith.
Participatory Strategic Planning
Planning the Future of the American Society for Cybernetics (Paper)
Alisa Oyler