Professor Dr Manea Manescu

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 16 March 2010

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Vallee, R. (2010), "Professor Dr Manea Manescu", Kybernetes, Vol. 39 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2010.06739aaa.003

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Professor Dr Manea Manescu

Article Type: Obituary From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 1

We have with deep regret to announce that Professor Manea Mănescu passed away on 27 February 2009.

He was born in Braila (Romania) on 9 August 1916. He graduated from the secondary school in Ploiesti, and did university economic studies at the Bucharest Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies.

His academic activities were devoted to economics and cybernetics both as a researcher and a university professor. He founded the Academy of Economic Studies incorporating the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics and also an international journal entitled Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research of which he was Editor-in-Chief. He was elected member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1974 (section of economics and sociology) and of the Academy of Social and Political Sciences. Among foreign distinctions we may quote that of Dr Honoris Causa of the University of Rostock (Germany), member of the Académie Latine (Paris), member of Société de Statistique de Paris, and member of the International Institute of Statistics (The Hague).

His first contract with the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC, at that time WOGSC) occurred at the occasion of the 4th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems and the International Automation Exhibition, both of WOSC, organised in Bucharest in 1975, under his direction and that of Professor J. Rose (founder of WOSC). This congress was a great success and Professor Mănescu was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of the WOSC. Later on he created a group called “Amis de la Wosc et de Kybernetes” (“Friends of WOSC and Kybernetes”), affiliated to WOSC.

Apart from his very numerous articles, mainly in English but also in Romanian and other languages, his most famous book is Economic Cybernetics, published in 1980 by Abacus (London).

Two sad events marked his family life: the death of his only son in 1988 in an explosion at the refinery of Ploiesti of which he was Technical Director, and that of his wife Maria, doctor of medicine.

Robert Vallée

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