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American Society for Cybernetics the Heinz Von Foerster Society
American Society for Cybernetics The Warren McCulloch Award of the American Society for Cybernetics is awarded to The Heinz von Foerster Society for an extensive, prolonged, deep and successful commitment to the furtherance of the work of Heinz von Foerster and other cyberneticians concerned with second-order cybernetics and related approaches and understandings. Beginning with a major interview book with Heinz von Foerster (“Der Anfang von Himmel und Erde hat keinen Namen: Eine Selbsterschaffung in sieben Tagen” about to appear in English translation), members of the Heinz for Foerster Society have promoted second order cybernetics in general, and the work of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Ernst von Glasersfeld and Richard Jung in particular, in the conferences and lectures they have funded and promoted over the past 10 years. Emerging from their first conference, the book “An Unfinished Revolution” is a key critical and reference work covering the progress so far of second-order cybernetics. Together with the publishers echoraum, they have also published a series of books on mainly second-order cybernetic topics, with authors including ASC members; and recently began a new series with the book “Trojan Horses,” which emerged from the ASC’s 2010 conference held in Troy, NY. The Heinz von Foerstar Society has been successful in directing new public attention to cybernetics in both the English and the German speaking worlds. Theirs is a major contribution to the furtherance of cybernetics, both in terms of public attention and publicity, and in the continuing development of our subject area. Ranulph Glanville President of the American Society for Cybernetics 2013/08/01. -
Neuerscheinungsdienst 2017 ND 08
Neuerscheinungsdienst Jahrgang: 2017 ND 08 Stand: 22. Februar 2017 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main) 2017 ISSN 1611-0153 urn:nbn:de:101-201612064955 2 Hinweise Der Neuerscheinungsdienst ist das Ergebnis der Ko- blikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; de- operation zwischen der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek und taillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über der MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels http://dnb.dnb.de abrufbar. GmbH. Ziel dieser Kooperation ist zum einen die Hebung Bibliographic information published by the Deut- des Qualitätsstandards des Verzeichnisses lieferbarer sche Nationalbibliothek Bücher (VLB) und zum anderen die Verbesserung der The Deutsche Naitonalbibliothek lists this publication in Aktualität und Vollständigkeit der Deutschen Nationalbi- the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic bliografie. In der Titelaufnahme wird der entsprechende data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. Link zu den Verlagsangaben direkt geschaltet; ebenso Information bibliographique de la Deutsche Natio- alle anderen möglichen Links. nalbibliothek Die Verleger melden ihre Titel in einem einzigen Vor- La Deutsche Nationalbibliothek a répertoiré cette publi- gang für das VLB und den Neuerscheinungsdienst der cation dans la Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; les données Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Dieser zeigt somit alle bibliographiques détaillées peuvent être consultées sur Neumeldungen von Titeln an, die auch in das VLB ein- Internet à l’adresse http://dnb.dnb.de gehen. Die VLB-Redaktion leitet die Meldungen an die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek weiter. Die Titel werden oh- Die Verleger übersenden gemäß den gesetzlichen Vor- ne weitere Änderungen im Neuerscheinungsdienst der schriften zur Pflichtablieferung zwei Pflichtexemplare je Deutschen Nationalbibliothek angezeigt. Die Titelanzei- nach Zuständigkeit an die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek gen selbst sind, wie auf der Sachgruppenübersicht an- nach Frankfurt am Main oder nach Leipzig. -
Special Education Session-2
Special Education Session Discussion on Control Textbooks at Undergraduate and Graduate Levels and Control Resources Publications Thursday, July 1, 2010 5:00 – 6:30 pm Waterfront C/D Refreshments will be served. Organizer and Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas, Chair of Control Education Committees, and Chair of IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Prize Selection Committee Sponsored by: AACC, IEEE CSS and IFAC Technical Committees on Control Education This Session will continue an important discussion on control textbooks that was initiated at the 2010 CDC/CCC in Shanghai, China last December. Call for Nominations for the IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize and Call for Control Resources Publications will be discussed. Harold Chestnut's contributions to control will be presented. Keynote Speaker Harold Chestnut received B.S. (1939) and Stephen Kahne M.S. (1940) degrees in electrical engineering The Story Behind the Harold Chestnut from MIT. He then began a life-long career with the General Electric Company until his Textbook Prize retirement in 1983. Stephen Kahne is an Embry-Riddle He was the first president of the International Aeronautical University Emeritus Professor Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He in Prescott, Arizona. He is an IEEE Life chaired the technical board and the Systems Engineering technical committee, served as Fellow, IFAC Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and honorary editor, and was the first advisor member of American MENSA. He was vice appointed for life. Chestnut was involved in president and IFAC president and has held the IEEE since its establishment in 1963 and leading positions in academia, industry, served as president in 1973. -
Systems Development Life Cycle
Systems Development Life Cycle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see SDLC (disambiguation). Model of the Systems Development Life Cycle with the Maintenance bubble highlighted. The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or Software Development Life Cycle in systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, is the process of creating or altering systems, and the models and methodologies that people use to develop these systems. The concept generally refers to computer or information systems. In software engineering the SDLC concept underpins many kinds of software development methodologies. These methodologies form the framework for planning and controlling the creation of an information system[1]: the software development process. Contents y 1 Overview y 2 History y 3 Systems development phases o 3.1 Requirements gathering and analysis o 3.2 Design o 3.3 Build or coding o 3.4 Testing o 3.5 Operations and maintenance y 4 Systems development life cycle topics o 4.1 Management and control o 4.2 Work breakdown structured organization o 4.3 Baselines in the SDLC o 4.4 Complementary to SDLC y 5 Strengths and weaknesses y 6 See also y 7 References y 8 Further reading y 9 External links [edit] Overview Systems and Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process used by a systems analyst to develop an information system, including requirements, validation, training, and user (stakeholder) ownership. Any SDLC should result in a high quality system that meets or exceeds customer expectations, reaches completion within time and cost estimates, works effectively and efficiently in the current and planned Information Technology infrastructure, and is inexpensive to maintain and cost-effective to enhance.[2] Computer systems are complex and often (especially with the recent rise of Service-Oriented Architecture) link multiple traditional systems potentially supplied by different software vendors. -
The Place and Meaning of Computing in a Sound Relationship of Man, Machines, and Environment
Proceedings ICMC|SMC|2014 14-20 September 2014, Athens, Greece The place and meaning of computing in a sound relationship of man, machines, and environment Agostino Di Scipio Electroacoustic Music Dept., Conservatory of L'Aquila, Italy [email protected] ABSTRACT other than digital in order to make sense of what in the world can be computed - provided there is anything really The following is a revised version of the text prepared by computable in music-related activities (a problematic the author for his keynote speech at the opening session question, often debated years ago). However, today the of the International Computer Music Conference 2013 particular manner in which digital technologies are sided (12.08.2013 Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre, by, and integrated in, different but overlapping techno- logical layers, seems to be increasingly significant to Perth, Western Australia). It bears on conceptual changes practitioners. This is clear from live performance prac- that have taken place, along the decades, in the shared tices where computing devices do not represent some- notion of "computing" as relative to creative practices of thing standing on its own, and are rather embedded in a sound- and music-making. In particular, the notion of larger "performance ecosystem" (Waters, 2011) where computing is considered vis a vis the relationship, either other technogical layers and agencies play an (equally?) implicity established or deliberately designed by practi- important role, whether they are human agencies (per- tioners, to the (necessarily hybrid) technological infra- formers), mechanical agencies (music instruments and structures of their work, as well as to the surrouding various infrastructures), or devices ranging from basic physical space where such practices take place. -
Kant, Cybernetics, and Cybersecurity: Integration and Secure Computation
Kant, Cybernetics, and Cybersecurity: Integration and Secure Computation Jon K. Burmeister and Ziyuan Meng College of Mount Saint Vincent Drew University [email protected], [email protected] Abstract1 This paper argues that Kant’s philosophy of mind sheds light on Heinz Von Foerster’s cybernetic thinking, and that both thinkers help us identify dubious theoretical assumptions within computer science and cybersecurity. Specifically, these two thinkers discuss the importance of integration within systems, a position which contrasts with a reductionist form of thinking currently common in computer science. We argue that such a reductionist and narrowly technocentric approach leads to the design of insecure software systems. To develop an improved theory of security and vulnerability, we look for inspiration to Kant and von Foerster. Our approach focuses on two types of integration within Kant’s philosophy of mind – the “unity of apperception,” and the unity of the mental faculties – and then traces these same themes in the thought of von Foerster. Building on that, we argue two points: 1.) a secure software system never directly takes its structure or operations from the external environement, and 2.) the more integrated a software system is, the more secure it is. To illustrate these points, we analyze a case study of a code injection attack against a vulnerable web application, and show how such a system is vulnerable to cyberattack when it fails to maintain its integrated form in response to inputs from the environment. Keywords: Philosophy of Mind, Cybernetics, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Kant, Heinz von Foerster, Integration, Reductionism. 1. Introduction The philosophical tradition of German Idealism and the field of cybernetics share a common impulse: both strive to think systematically and at a high level of generality, with the goal of discovering foundational principles that apply across a wide variety of domains. -
What Is Systems Theory?
What is Systems Theory? Systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science, and is a framework by which one can investigate and/or describe any group of objects that work together to produce some result. This could be a single organism, any organization or society, or any electro-mechanical or informational artifact. As a technical and general academic area of study it predominantly refers to the science of systems that resulted from Bertalanffy's General System Theory (GST), among others, in initiating what became a project of systems research and practice. Systems theoretical approaches were later appropriated in other fields, such as in the structural functionalist sociology of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann . Contents - 1 Overview - 2 History - 3 Developments in system theories - 3.1 General systems research and systems inquiry - 3.2 Cybernetics - 3.3 Complex adaptive systems - 4 Applications of system theories - 4.1 Living systems theory - 4.2 Organizational theory - 4.3 Software and computing - 4.4 Sociology and Sociocybernetics - 4.5 System dynamics - 4.6 Systems engineering - 4.7 Systems psychology - 5 See also - 6 References - 7 Further reading - 8 External links - 9 Organisations // Overview 1 / 20 What is Systems Theory? Margaret Mead was an influential figure in systems theory. Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritj of Capra , organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge , interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. -
Memorial Tributes: Volume 12
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/12473 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 12 DETAILS 376 pages | 6.25 x 9.25 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-12639-7 | DOI 10.17226/12473 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK National Academy of Engineering FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 12 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 12 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 12 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Memorial Tributes Volume 12 THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington, D.C. 2008 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 12 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-309-12639-7 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-12639-8 Additional copies of this publication are available from: The National Academies Press 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Lockbox 285 Washington, D.C. 20055 800–624–6242 or 202–334–3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area) http://www.nap.edu Copyright 2008 by the National Academy of Sciences. -
How Cybernetics Connects Computing, Counterculture, and Design
Walker Art Center — Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia — Exhibit Catalog — October 2015 How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design Hugh Dubberly — Dubberly Design Office — [email protected] Paul Pangaro — College for Creative Studies — [email protected] “Man is always aiming to achieve some goal language, and sharing descriptions creates a society.[2] and he is always looking for new goals.” Suddenly, serious scientists were talking seriously —Gordon Pask[1] about subjectivity—about language, conversation, and ethics—and their relation to systems and to design. Serious scientists were collaborating to study Beginning in the decade before World War II and collaboration. accelerating through the war and after, scientists This turn away from the mainstream of science designed increasingly sophisticated mechanical and became a turn toward interdisciplinarity—and toward electrical systems that acted as if they had a purpose. counterculture. This work intersected other work on cognition in Two of these scientists, Heinz von Foerster and animals as well as early work on computing. What Gordon Pask, took an interest in design, even as design emerged was a new way of looking at systems—not just was absorbing the lessons of cybernetics. Another mechanical and electrical systems, but also biological member of the group, Gregory Bateson, caught the and social systems: a unifying theory of systems and attention of Stewart Brand, systems thinker, designer, their relation to their environment. This turn toward and publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Bateson “whole systems” and “systems thinking” became introduced Brand to von Foerster.[3] Brand’s Whole Earth known as cybernetics. Cybernetics frames the world in Catalog spawned a do-it-yourself publishing revolution, terms of systems and their goals. -
For Heinz Von Foerster)
Designing Our World: Cybernetics as Conversation for Action Heinz von Foerster Lecture ’17 University of Vienna 20 June 2017 Paul Pangaro, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor MFA Interaction Design Program College for Creative Studies, Detroit [email protected] RSD5Heinz / vonToronto, Foerster Canada ’17 / Vienna/ Paul PangaroJune 2017 / Designing / Paul Pangaro Conversations for Socially-Conscious Design 1 MFA Transportation Design MFA Color & Materials Design MFA Integrated Design MFA Interaction Design College for Creative Studies, Detroit [email protected] RSD5Heinz / vonToronto, Foerster Canada ’17 / Vienna/ Paul PangaroJune 2017 / Designing / Paul Pangaro Conversations for Socially-Conscious Design 2 Paul Pangaro, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor MFA Interaction Design Program College for Creative Studies, Detroit RSD5Heinz / vonToronto, Foerster Canada ’17 / Vienna/ Paul PangaroJune 2017 / Designing / Paul Pangaro Conversations for Socially-Conscious Design 3 MFA Interaction Design RSD5Heinz / vonToronto, Foerster Canada ’17 / Vienna/ Paul PangaroJune 2017 / Designing / Paul Pangaro Conversations for Socially-Conscious Design 4 MFA Interaction Design HeinzRSD5 von / Toronto, Foerster Canada ’17 / Vienna / Paul June Pangaro 2017 // DesigningPaul Pangaro Conversations for Socially-Conscious Design 5 Heinz von Foerster ’17 / Vienna June 2017 / Paul Pangaro 6 Knowledge – Organisation – Society Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory International Heinz von Foerster-Congress 2003 at the Wittgenstein-House Thursday, November 13 Friday, November 14 Saturday, November 15 Conference Openings Alfred Inselberg Robert Martin 9:00 a.m. Pille Bunnell BCL and the Visualization of Inventing the World One – 11:00 a.m. Ilse König Multidimensional Geometry Conversation at a Time: the Once and Allenna Leonard Lars Löfgren Future Invitation of Heinz von Foerster Andreas von Foerster From Wittgenstein’s Language- Paul Pangaro Thomas von Foerster World Thesis to Holistic Language The Past-Future of Cybernetics: Moderator: Karl H. -
TECHNICAL PROGRAM NAFIPS-TARDEC Session*
TECHNICAL PROGRAM NAFIPS-TARDEC Session* Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:00 AM Visitor Check-in at Badge Office (Bldg. 232, Gate 38) Continental Breakfast and TARDEC Seminar Sign-In TARDEC Bldg 200A-Auditorium 10:00 AM TARDEC Welcome - Dr. Grant Gerhart. Session Chair: Tom Meitzler 10:10 AM From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems—The Problems of World Knowledge, Relevance and Deduction Lotfi A. Zadeh, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley 10:50 AM BREAK 11:00 AM Arming the Robotic Solder with Fuzzy Logic Ronald R Yager, Machine Intelligence Institute 11:40 AM LUNCH- Bldg. 200A Cafeteria (Box Lunches Provided) 12:10 PM Standard Fuzzy Arithmetic and Constrained Fuzzy Arithmetic George J. Klir, Department of Systems Science & Industrial Eng., Binghamton University (SUNNY) 12:50 PM Fuzzy-Neural Computing and the Development of Intelligent Systems: Theory and Industrial Applications Madan M. Gupta, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan 1:30 PM BREAK 1:40 PM Hybrid Fuzzy Systems: Classification and Prediction Applications Piero P. Bonissone, General Electric Global Research 2:20 PM Soft Computing for Sensor and Algorithm Fusion Jim Keller, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Missouri-Columbia 3:00 PM BREAK 3:10 PM Panel Discussion: The Importance of Fuzzy Logic Applications to the US Army and Homeland Defense Tom Meitzler, Moderator Panelists: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Ronald R Yager, George J. Klir, Madan M. Gupta, Piero P. Bonissone, Jim Keller, and Dimitar Filev 4:00PM Closing Remarks *This session is open to US citizens only. Thursday, June 23, 2005, 08:30AM – 10:00AM Plenary Session I 8:30 AM The Concept of a Generalized Constraint—A Bridge from Natural Languages to Mathematics Lofti A. -
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PGN PGN JWDD051-01 JWDD051-Gibson April 4, 2007 7:53 Char Count= 0 Chapter 1 Introduction sys·tem (s˘ıstəm) n. 1. A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a com- plex whole. 2. A functionally related group of elements, especially: a. The human body regarded as a functional physiological unit. b. An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions. c. A group of physiologically or anatomically complementary organs or parts: the nervous system; the skeletal system. d. A group of interacting mechanical or electrical components. e. A network of structures and channels, as for communication, travel, or dis- tribution. f. A network of related computer software, hardware, and data transmission devices. 3. An organizedCOPYRIGHTED set of interrelated ideas or principles. MATERIAL 4. A social, economic, or political organizational form. 5. A naturally occurring group of objects or phenomena: the solar system. 6. A set of objects or phenomena grouped together for classification or analysis. 7. A condition of harmonious, orderly interaction. How to Do Systems Analysis. By John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, and William F. Gibson Copyright C 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1 PGN PGN JWDD051-01 JWDD051-Gibson April 4, 2007 7:53 Char Count= 0 2 INTRODUCTION 8. An organized and coordinated method; a procedure. 9. The prevailing social order; the establishment. Used with: You can’t beat the system. [Late Latin syst¯ema, syst¯emat-, from Greek sust¯ema, from sunistanai, to combine : sun-, syn- + histanai, set up, establish.] Source: Answers.com: American Heritage In the systems approach, concentration is on the analysis and design of the whole, as dis- tinct from .