American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2003 Conference

Citation

(2003), "American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2003 Conference", Kybernetes, Vol. 32 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2003.06732iab.010

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2003 Conference

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2003 Conference

The conference was scheduled for November 2003, to be held at Vienna, Austria. It was designed to take place as part of "Heinz von Foerster week". The event was organised into two parts consisting of two distinct activities:

Part I. Organising Organisations (November 10-12). Variations on Three Imperatives by Heinz von Foerster, co-sponsored with the Institutee for Systemisches Coaching and Training (ISCT)

Part II. Knowledge-Organisation-Society. Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory in association with the University of Vienna and the Austrian Society of Cognitive Sciences (ASOCS)

The themes for 3 days corresponding with Heinz von Foerster's imperatives were scheduled to be:

1. 1.

   Therapeutic imperative. If you want to remain yourself, change!

2. 2.

   Aesthetical imperative. If you desire to see, learn to act!

3. 3.

   Ethical imperative. Act so as to increase the number of choices!

In relation to "Knowledge-organization-Society", a special focus on the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) projects in the early 1970s which established multiple proposals in relation to knowledge organisation or knowing access.

The ASC portion of the conference proceedings will be published on the ASC Web site. A review of the conference, written by the participants from the Editorial Advisory Board of Kybernetes will be published in the future issues. The ASC website is: http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2003/index.htm