Heinz von Foerster (née von Förster; November 13, 1911 – October 2, 2002) was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely...
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the late 1960s and mid 1970s by Heinz von Foerster and others, with key inspiration coming from Margaret Mead. Foerster referred to it as "the control...
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had participants included Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Heinz von Foerster, Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and Norbert Wiener. In the UK, similar focuses...
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such as Ashby, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, and Heinz von Foerster examined complex systems mathematically; Von Neumann discovered cellular automata...
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1947. It was taken up by the cyberneticians Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Stafford Beer; and von Foerster organized a conference on "The Principles of...
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epidemiology, and subsequently independently in 1959 by biophysics professor Heinz von Foerster for describing cell cycles. The mathematical formula can be derived...
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Evolution". Around the same time it was also explored by the cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, who used it to propose that memories naturally fade in an exponential...
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cyberneticist or a cybernetician is a person who applies cybernetics. Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician"...
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The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foerster's Constructivism is a book by Lynn Segal first published in 1986. Segal, a licensed clinical social worker, examines...
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Dirk. "The Eye of the Coyote". Heinz von Foerster Festschrift. Markoff, John (November 9, 2002). "Heinz von Foerster, 90, Dies; Was Information Theorist"...
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second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was a biologist,...
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Nielsen. Similar principles of eschatology were proposed earlier by Heinz von Foerster, among others. A more general form was given earlier in the Lindy...
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closely related to second-order cybernetics, and especially the work of Heinz von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, and Francisco Varela. During the 1980s, Siegfried...
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Financial Times, and the City of Vienna. Straub was awarded the Heinz von Foerster Prize in 2012 for his work in applying cybernetics to organizations...
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general Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), German comedian, entertainer and actor Heinz Fischer (born 1938), President of Austria Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002)...
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founded on 1 January 1958, by then Professor of Electrical Engineering Heinz von Foerster. He was head of BCL until his retirement in 1975. The focus of research...
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the term working body when referring to the system. The biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy became one of the pioneers of the general systems theory. In...
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Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 September 1901 – 12 June 1972) was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST)...
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the environment formed by all other subsystems. The cybernetician Heinz von Foerster formulated the principle of "order from noise" in 1960. It notes that...
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Austrian Decoration for Science and Art. In January 2010 he received the Heinz-von-Foerster Price at the University of Hagen for organizations- cybernetics. On...
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A. (1952). Communication Between Men: The Meaning of Language. In Heinz von Foerster (ed), Transactions of 8th Macy Conference - Cybernetics: Circular...
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science of "control and communication in the animal and the machine". Heinz von Foerster went on to distinguish a first order cybernetics, "the study of observed...
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Electron, 20, 380. 1962. "Principles of the Self-Organizing System". In: Heinz Von Foerster and George W. Zopf, Jr. (eds.), Principles of Self-Organization (Sponsored...
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Churchman Manfred Clynes George Dantzig Edsger W. Dijkstra Fred Emery Heinz von Foerster Stephanie Forrest Jay Wright Forrester Barbara Grosz Charles A. S...
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Archived from the original on July 30, 2018. Dixon 1971, pp. 170–172. von Foerster, Heinz; Mora, Patricia M.; Amiot, Lawrence W. (1960-11-01). "Doomsday: Friday...
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evolution of cybernetic science from Norbert Wiener to Gordon Pask, Heinz von Foerster, and Autopoiesis, and in related fields such as Autocatalysis, the...
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Engelbart, Calvin Mooers, Marvin Minsky, Calvin Mooers, Heinz von Foerster, Gotthard Günther, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Gordon Pask, Warren McCulloch, William...
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2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (b. 1906) 2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911) 2003 – John...
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Churchman Manfred Clynes George Dantzig Edsger W. Dijkstra Fred Emery Heinz von Foerster Stephanie Forrest Jay Wright Forrester Barbara Grosz Charles A. S...
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