Abstract
he American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964 by a group of people in Washington, DC who were interested in the then new field of cybernetics. The founding members of the Society wanted to follow and to encourage the development of this interdisciplinary field.
Author supplied keywords
- ASC
- Francisco Varela
- George Spencer Brown
- Gordon Pask
- Gregory Bateson
- Heinz von Foerster
- Humberto Maturana
- John von Neumann
- Macy conferences
- Margaret Mead
- Norbert Wiener
- Ross Ashby
- Warren McCulloch
- autopoiesis
- biology of cognition
- calculus of indications
- constructivism
- conversation
- conversation theory
- cybernetics
- general systems theory
- human knowing
- second order cybernetics
- systems theory
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American Society for Cybernetics. (2014). Summary: The Macy Conferences. Retrieved from http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history/MacySummary.htm
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