Cybernetics Society
The Cybernetics Society is a UK-based learned society that exists to promote the understanding of Cybernetics. The core activity of the Cybernetics Society is the organization and facilitation of scientific meetings, conferences, and social events. The society's website provides information and news items for professionals in the field and the general audience in order to improve the understanding of cybernetics and associated disciplines. Among the activities of the Society are:
- Annual Conference: Annual conferences of the Cybernetics Society are held since 1973.[1][2]
- CYBCOM: CYBCOM is a Cybernetics discussion group.[3]
- Fellows of the Cybernetics Society: Some of the numerous fellows are Ranulph Glanville, Charles Hampden-Turner, Mick Ashby (Ethical regulator), Dr D.J. Stewart (Nudge theory), Dr James Wilk (Nudge theory), Dr Martin Smith[4] and Dr David Dewhurst.[5]
- Honorary fellows : Among those awarded by the Cybernetics Society are: Eric Ash, Anthony Stafford Beer, Margaret Boden, James W. Black, John Carew Eccles, James Lovelock, Roger Penrose, Horace Barlow and Abdus Salam.[6] Recent awardees include Stephen Brewis, David Deutsch, Fredmund Malik, Humberto Maturana and Kevin Warwick.[7]
- Kybernetes: The Society is working together with the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics on Kybernetes, The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences.
- IFSR: They are a member of the International Federation for Systems Research.
Enacting Cybernetics
Academic journal
Discipline | Cybernetics |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Ben Sweeting |
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History | 2023–present |
Publisher | The Cybernetics Society, hosted by Ubiquity Press |
Frequency | Continuous |
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Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) | |
ISO 4 | Enact. Cybern. |
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
ISSN | 2754-5512 |
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The society publishes an open access journal, Enacting Cybernetics, hosted by Ubiquity Press. The journal is focused on "exploring and developing the many ways in which cybernetics may be practiced in the world."[8]
References
- ^ The Cybernetics Society: Past Proceedings
- ^ List of speakers (1973–2005)
- ^ Archives of [email protected]
- ^ http://www.cybsoc.org/contacts/people-Smith.htm accessed 20.5.20
- ^ http://www.cybsoc.org/contacts/people-Dewhurst.htm, accessed 20.5.2020
- ^ Honorary Fellows of the Society
- ^ "Home". cybsoc.org.
- ^ https://enacting-cybernetics.org/ [bare URL]
External links
- Cybernetics Society homepage
- Enacting Cybernetics
- Kybernetes
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Subfields of and cyberneticians involved in cybernetics
- Artificial intelligence
- Biological cybernetics
- Biomedical cybernetics
- Biorobotics
- Biosemiotics
- Neurocybernetics
- Catastrophe theory
- Computational neuroscience
- Connectionism
- Control theory
- Conversation theory
- Cybernetics in the Soviet Union
- Decision theory
- Emergence
- Engineering cybernetics
- Homeostasis
- Information theory
- Management cybernetics
- Medical cybernetics
- Second-order cybernetics
- Cybersemiotics
- Sociocybernetics
- Synergetics
- Alexander Lerner
- Alexey Lyapunov
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
- Allenna Leonard
- Anthony Wilden
- Buckminster Fuller
- Charles François
- Genevieve Bell
- Margaret Boden
- Claude Bernard
- Cliff Joslyn
- Erich von Holst
- Ernst von Glasersfeld
- Francis Heylighen
- Francisco Varela
- Frederic Vester
- Charles Geoffrey Vickers
- Gordon Pask
- Gordon S. Brown
- Gregory Bateson
- Heinz von Foerster
- Humberto Maturana
- I. A. Richards
- Igor Aleksander
- Jacque Fresco
- Jakob von Uexküll
- Jason Jixuan Hu
- Jay Wright Forrester
- Jennifer Wilby
- John N. Warfield
- Kevin Warwick
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- Maleyka Abbaszadeh
- Manfred Clynes
- Margaret Mead
- Marian Mazur
- N. Katherine Hayles
- Natalia Bekhtereva
- Niklas Luhmann
- Norbert Wiener
- Pyotr Grigorenko
- Qian Xuesen
- Ranulph Glanville
- Robert Trappl
- Sergei P. Kurdyumov
- Anthony Stafford Beer
- Stuart Kauffman
- Stuart Umpleby
- Talcott Parsons
- Ulla Mitzdorf
- Valentin Turchin
- Valentin Braitenberg
- William Ross Ashby
- Walter Bradford Cannon
- Walter Pitts
- Warren McCulloch
- William Grey Walter