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Category: Books (49)
- Decision and Control by: Bricoleur
  April 19, 2010, 00:30
  Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics by Stafford Beer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Virtually every major…
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by: Bricoleur
  April 17, 2010, 23:24
  Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows My rating: 4 of 5 stars the subtitle says it all; this is an excellent introduction to the field of…
- The iPhone as reader ... a first flirtation by: Bricoleur
  April 13, 2010, 18:12
  Image via Wikipedia R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Čapek My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews >>
- The Great Seduction: 2009: The end of print by: dhcsoul
  December 29, 2008, 21:09
  Image via Wikipedia 2009: The end of print - Andrew Keen "It promises to be the tipping point of tipping points. As I argue today on Internet…
- The Superorganism: the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of Insect Societies by: dhcsoul
  December 29, 2008, 20:03
  Image via Wikipedia I got the last of my presents today... via gift card purchase at a "Boxing Day" sale. The first major collaboration by Bert…
- Cafe-Shaped Business | chrisbrogan.com by: dhcsoul
  December 22, 2008, 23:25
  December 19, 2008 You Are Here Books Imagine if cafe-shaped conversations translated into smaller businesses. Educational marketing expert Rachel Reuben…
- Breadcrumbs for November 16th through 01:05 by: dhcsoul
  November 16, 2008, 20:29
  Image via WikipediaThese are my links for November 16th from 01:05 to 01:05: Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The…
- A review of the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program by: dhcsoul
  November 3, 2008, 04:06
  In a previous post I noted that Joel Spolsky is putting together a management training program for his firm that will include a required reading list consisting…
- All my Books on Goodreads by: dhcsoul
  September 17, 2007, 22:52
  http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/372460?shelf=read
- Cybernetics Bookshelf by: dhcsoul
  September 16, 2007, 06:14
  As I noted elsewhere, I'm looking at using Goodreads as a catalog system for my fairly extensive library.... here's a widget courtesy of the Goodreads…
- Goodreads by: dhcsoul
  September 16, 2007, 06:03
  I think I've finally found a web system to catalog the books in my library!When I was part of the early beta testing for Ning, I had high hopes for that…
- Where's Bric: What I'm Reading Now by: dhcsoul
  September 7, 2007, 06:18
  Life without books would almost be life without meaning for me...here is a list as they enter into my life (and library)
- Commit random acts of literacy! Read and Release at: by: dhcsoul
  March 3, 2006, 07:28
  What is BookCrossing? bookcrossingn. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. Members let…
- Commit random acts of literacy! Read and Release at: by: dsoul
  March 2, 2006, 23:16
  http://www.bookcrossing.com/friend/hutch-soul What is BookCrossing? bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read…
- A Cybernetics and Systems Thinking Bookshelf by: dhcsoul
  January 14, 2006, 06:45
  I have an application running on the "ning" playground that "shelves" some of the many books I have in my personal library in these areas.... many have a brief…
- Category: Books (Design) (3)
  - The Fieldstone Method by: Bricoleur
    May 9, 2010, 00:52
    Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method by Gerald M. Weinberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars "With wit, charm, humor, and wisdom, Gerald Weinberg shows you…
  - Thinking out Loud by: dsoul
    October 24, 2008, 22:45
    The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam rating: 4 of 5 stars My review View all my reviews.
  - "Designing Freedom" lessons from Cybernetics relevant today by: dsoul
    September 23, 2008, 19:31
    Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer My review rating: 4 of 5 stars I finally got my own copy of this book (which I've been looking for it since about…
- Category: Books (CEP) (3)
  - A Simple Introduction to Complex Event Processing (sample chapter) by: dhcsoul
    January 15, 2006, 23:26
    A sample chapter (provided courtesy of Addison Wesley) from David Luckham's book "The Power of Events : an Introduction to Complex Event Processing in…
  - The Power of Events by: dhcsoul
    January 15, 2006, 00:27
    This is a review ((from ACM Ubiquity) of David Luckham's book, The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed…
  - Intelligent Systems: Architecture, Design, and Control by: dhcsoul
    January 14, 2006, 22:41
    Billed as "a cutting-edge, multidisciplinary framework for intelligent systems", this book by Alexander A. Meystel (Drexel University) and James S. Albus…
- Category: Books (Cybernetics) (16)
  - Decision and Control by: Bricoleur
    April 19, 2010, 00:30
    Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics by Stafford Beer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Virtually every major…
  - Thinking in Systems: A Primer by: Bricoleur
    April 17, 2010, 23:24
    Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows My rating: 4 of 5 stars the subtitle says it all; this is an excellent introduction to the field of…
  - System-Theoretic Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 6, 2009, 22:34
    Image via Wikipedia "IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them." …
  - Mathematical Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 6, 2009, 22:16
    I have not read any of Stafford Beer’s entries in the Select Bibliography included in The Heart of Enterprise, so cannot make any recommendations on the…
  - Aesthetic Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 6, 2009, 21:42
    "We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe." --…
  - Socio-Economic Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 6, 2009, 21:05
    Image via Wikipedia The Prince -- Machiavelli "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and…
  - Psychological Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 6, 2009, 20:34
    I have not read any of Stafford Beer's entries in the Select Bibliography included in The Heart of Enterprise, so cannot make any recommendations on the…
  - Biological Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 6, 2009, 17:56
    Image via Wikipedia Level II Ashby, W. Ross, An Induction to Cybernetics, Chapman and Hall, 1956 Maturana, Humberto, and Varela, Francisco,…
  - Philospophical Reflections by: dhcsoul
    February 5, 2009, 23:52
    "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think" — Gregory Bateson Level I McCulloch,…
  - Viable Systems - A Reading List by: dhcsoul
    February 5, 2009, 23:50
    Image via Wikipedia In "The Heart of Enterprise," one of the classics in the field of management cybernetics, Stafford Beer includes a select bibiograph…
  - "Designing Freedom" lessons from Cybernetics relevant today by: dsoul
    September 23, 2008, 19:31
    Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer My review rating: 4 of 5 stars I finally got my own copy of this book (which I've been looking for it since about…
  - Cybernetics Bookshelf by: dhcsoul
    September 16, 2007, 06:14
    As I noted elsewhere, I'm looking at using Goodreads as a catalog system for my fairly extensive library.... here's a widget courtesy of the Goodreads…
  - Breadcrumbs for 2006-02-10 by: dsoul
    February 9, 2006, 20:22
    Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (tags: books Ashby Cybernetics @) CS 377A: Introduction to Cybernetics and the Design of Systems Course…
  - The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:18
    In this book by Simon Head (Oxford University Press, 2003) the author maintains that information technology is being used not to liberate workers from drudgery…
  - Automating Invention: Norbert Weiner on Computer Automation and Work by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 00:08
    Robert Plotkin ('Automating Invention") often writes about the economic effects of computer automation including the drive to develop and market skills that…
  - Organizational Transformation and Learning: A Cybernetic Approach to Management by: dhcsoul
    January 11, 2006, 07:29
    Anyone familiar with the work of Stafford Beer in the area of Viable Systems (VSM) will want to see the practical application of the model and the role that…
- Category: Books (other) (15)
  - "I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship. by: dhcsoul
    December 9, 2008, 02:22
    Image via Wikipedia .... the enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare…
  - The REAL Maverick: Present Economy worse than Depression by: dhcsoul
    November 16, 2008, 23:33
    PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics (and…
  - The latest research on the correlation between religion and niceness by: dhcsoul
    November 10, 2008, 16:13
    Paul Bloom writes in Slate Magazine "Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists. According to a 2007 Gallup poll, ((AOL: Americans will vote for anyone but…
  - The Strange Case of Hellish Nell by: dhcsoul
    October 26, 2008, 03:27
    When Hellish Nell claimed to have channeled spirits of the dead (who gave away wartime secrets), she was charged under Witchcraft Act of 1735 (and was in…
  - Oh what a dream... by: dsoul
    October 24, 2008, 21:01
    I worked in a specialty bookstore once... while escaping reality and as a prelude to switching careers.... Siliconnections in Vancouver, an interesting…
  - More on "The Last Lecture" by: dsoul
    July 31, 2008, 00:23
    The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch My review rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm slowly getting my library posted to GoodReads - You can follow the links and…
  - The End of America by: dhcsoul
    September 20, 2007, 01:56
    from the cover: ".... Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us -- with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency…
  - Whose Freedom? by: dhcsoul
    September 19, 2007, 22:47
    From the cover: "Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "freedom." Al-Qaeda attacted us because "they hate our…
  - Stumbling on Happiness by: dhcsoul
    June 26, 2007, 22:34
    new InsightBookReader('single', '9781400042661', 'Stumbling%20on%20Happiness', 'Daniel%20Gilbert', '0');
  - Breadcrumbs for 2006-04-25 by: dsoul
    April 24, 2006, 20:27
    The revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock - Richard Mabey reviews (Books - Times Online) (tags: Lovelock Gaia climate)
  - Seth Godin's: Flipping the Funnel -a new ebook by: dhcsoul
    February 9, 2006, 07:45
    Seth's Blog: Flipping the Funnel--new ebookSeth's new ebook is based on the simple premise that you should "Give Your Fans the Power to Speak Up"…
  - The Untied States of America by: dhcsoul
    January 21, 2006, 05:49
    Enriquez illustrates that nations beset with problems from within are always susceptible to break-up ... he focuses on the United States but also gives…
  - Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:17
    Seldom do book publishers cover notes reflect the reality of the contents. Even rarer is the case where they understate the charm and impact that a book can…
  - The Future of Ideas: the Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 03:30
    by Lawrence Lessig (2001, 352 pages, Random House.) I just finished reading this and must agree with the people that have been insisting (including…
  - Presence: An Exploration of profound Change in People, Organizations and Society by: dhcsoul
    January 11, 2006, 07:29
    Acccording to the cover flap, "...an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-rangin conversations held over a…
- Category: Books ("Best of") (3)
  - The Fieldstone Method by: Bricoleur
    May 9, 2010, 00:52
    Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method by Gerald M. Weinberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars "With wit, charm, humor, and wisdom, Gerald Weinberg shows you…
  - A review of the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program by: dhcsoul
    November 3, 2008, 04:06
    In a previous post I noted that Joel Spolsky is putting together a management training program for his firm that will include a required reading list consisting…
  - Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program - Joel on Software by: dhcsoul
    November 2, 2008, 03:04
    An interesting post on the Joel On Software site: By Joel Spolsky Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training…
Category: cybernetics (114)
- Cybernetics: History and Biographies by: Bricoleur
  May 30, 2010, 14:53
  [dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to…
- Applied Cybernetics by: Bricoleur
  May 30, 2010, 14:17
  [dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to…
- Cybernetics by: Bricoleur
  May 30, 2010, 13:27
  [dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to…
- Cybernetics Landmarks - a Travellers Guide by: Bricoleur
  May 29, 2010, 21:21
  being an updated version of the... Cybernetics - start here guide by dsoul on Thu 12 Jan 2006 08:49 PM PST | American Society for…
- Cybernetics: An Introduction (10 minute videos) by: Bricoleur
  May 16, 2010, 13:16
  Image via Wikipedia From The Cybernetics Society The UK national learned society and professional body promoting pure and applied cybernetics Te…
- When you're wrong, you're wrong ? by: Bricoleur
  May 9, 2010, 09:54
  Image via Wikipedia I was listening to an interesting , albeit very unstructured, discussion on the radio the other day and one of the participants…
- System-Theoretic Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 6, 2009, 22:34
  Image via Wikipedia "IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them." …
- Mathematical Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 6, 2009, 22:16
  I have not read any of Stafford Beer’s entries in the Select Bibliography included in The Heart of Enterprise, so cannot make any recommendations on the…
- Aesthetic Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 6, 2009, 21:42
  "We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe." --…
- Socio-Economic Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 6, 2009, 21:05
  Image via Wikipedia The Prince -- Machiavelli "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and…
- Psychological Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 6, 2009, 20:34
  I have not read any of Stafford Beer's entries in the Select Bibliography included in The Heart of Enterprise, so cannot make any recommendations on the…
- Biological Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 6, 2009, 17:56
  Image via Wikipedia Level II Ashby, W. Ross, An Induction to Cybernetics, Chapman and Hall, 1956 Maturana, Humberto, and Varela, Francisco,…
- Philospophical Reflections by: dhcsoul
  February 5, 2009, 23:52
  "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think" — Gregory Bateson Level I McCulloch,…
- Viable Systems - A Reading List by: dhcsoul
  February 5, 2009, 23:50
  Image via Wikipedia In "The Heart of Enterprise," one of the classics in the field of management cybernetics, Stafford Beer includes a select bibiograph…
- The New Science of Sustainable Dynamics: ENN -- Know Your Environment by: dhcsoul
  December 30, 2008, 17:58
  Image via Wikipedia "In 1948, Norbert Wiener pondered a new science in his classic book Cybernetics, one that flirted with the "boundary regions of…
- Oliver Selfridge: pioneer of artificial intellegence by: dhcsoul
  December 23, 2008, 23:08
  Image via Wikipedia Oliver Selfridge, who has died aged 82, was a British-born pioneer of Artificial Intelligence, and was also the grandson of the…
- Wiener: a struggle against the limitations of our intelligence by: dhcsoul
  December 22, 2008, 10:35
  Image via Wikipedia "The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable…
- The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive by: dhcsoul
  December 21, 2008, 02:12
  Man adapts by conquering the reducible; the irreducible is impregnable. W.Ross Ashby The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive - Aphorisms
- louisgray.com: Brand Reputation Management Is Not a Monday-Friday Gig by: dhcsoul
  November 16, 2008, 21:43
  Very interesting threads on friendfeed, Twitter (follow the thread here), and YouTube give some indication of how quickly conversations over social…
- Designing Freedom & The Purpose of Education by: dhcsoul
  November 15, 2008, 23:32
  Stafford Beer 1926 - 2002 If, as will become the dominant theme of this blog, the Purpose of a System is What it Does ( POSIWID) what does it mean…
- POSIWID: Don't waste a crisis by: dhcsoul
  November 12, 2008, 01:21
  Richard Veryard writes in POSIWID: Don't Waste A Crisis that: Rahm Emanuel, just appointed chief-of-staff by President-elect Barack Obama: "You don't ever…
- The latest research on the correlation between religion and niceness by: dhcsoul
  November 10, 2008, 16:13
  Paul Bloom writes in Slate Magazine "Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists. According to a 2007 Gallup poll, ((AOL: Americans will vote for anyone but…
- "Designing Freedom" lessons from Cybernetics relevant today by: dsoul
  September 23, 2008, 19:31
  Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer My review rating: 4 of 5 stars I finally got my own copy of this book (which I've been looking for it since about…
- Lessons Forgot by: dsoul
  September 22, 2008, 22:47
  40+ years ago the cyberneticist Stafford Beer forecast that computerization would be a disaster if this "new" prescription of Shirky's was not followed . In…
- The best of times by: dsoul
  July 22, 2008, 18:27
  Carl Pope has an interesting piece If you look far enough into the future you can devalue the worth of not just the human race but of everything (at least by…
- Breadcrumbs for 2006-02-25 by: dsoul
  February 24, 2006, 20:21
  America's Byways®: National Scenic Byways Online (tags: America travel Driving @)
- A Cybernetics Wikispace by: dsoul
  February 15, 2006, 02:22
  A wikispace underconstruction by DHC Soul covering the field of Cybernetics: cybernetics » home Cybernetics is at once both an interdisciplinary and a…
- Squidoo: Second Order Cybernetics by: dsoul
  February 11, 2006, 23:36
  Second order Cybernetics considers the impact that the observer has on the system being observed.... as such it covers all most all aspects of human endeavor. …
- Squidoo: General Systems Theory by: dsoul
  February 11, 2006, 23:35
  The notion of a system may be seen as simply a more self-conscious and generic term for the dynamic interrelatedness of components. Von Bertalanffy Genera…
- Squidoo: Educational Cybernetics by: dsoul
  February 11, 2006, 23:34
  Educational Cybernetics is concerned with improving both formal educational ventures and learning conversations.It is based on Cybernetics - the science of…
- Squidoo: VSM by: dsoul
  February 11, 2006, 23:32
  This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM).It is especially concerned with the…
- Squidoo: Cybernetics by: dsoul
  February 11, 2006, 23:29
  A simple view of Cybernetics is as the science of communications and control in animal and machine. Cybernetics, and the related domain of systems science ,…
- Squidoo: Managemet Matters by: dsoul
  February 11, 2006, 19:45
  This lens is based on a very simple premise....that Management does indeed matter, each of its modules looks at a different aspect of management that inturn…
- Squidoo: Management Matters by: dhcsoul
  February 11, 2006, 04:42
  This lens is based on a very simple premise....that Management does indeed matter, each of its modules looks at a different aspect of management that inturn…
- Squidoo: Second Order Cybernetics by: dhcsoul
  February 10, 2006, 09:07
  Second order Cybernetics considers the impact that the observer has on the system being observed.... as such it covers all most all aspects of human…
- Squidoo: General Systems Theory by: dhcsoul
  February 10, 2006, 09:04
  The notion of a system may be seen as simply a more self-conscious and generic term for the dynamic interrelatedness of components. Von Bertalanffy G…
- Squidoo: Educational Cybernetics by: dhcsoul
  February 10, 2006, 09:02
  Educational Cybernetics is concerned with improving both formal educational ventures and learning conversations. It is based on Cybernetics - the science of…
- Squidoo: VSM by: dhcsoul
  February 10, 2006, 03:13
  This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM). It is especially concerned with the…
- Squidoo: Cybernetics by: dhcsoul
  February 10, 2006, 03:04
  A simple view of Cybernetics is as the science of communications and control in animal and machine. Cybernetics, and the related domain of systems science ,…
- A Cybernetics Wikispace by: dsoul
  February 1, 2006, 00:55
  A wikispace underconstruction by DHC Soul covering the field of Cybernetics: cybernetics » home Cybernetics is at once both an interdisciplinary and a…
- Are smarter people better at ignoring things? by: dhcsoul
  January 29, 2006, 03:36
  from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?A team testing the "visual working memory" of a group of subjects by getting them…
- A Squidoo Metalens: Cybernetics Start Here Guide by: dsoul
  January 26, 2006, 22:26
  A Squidoo Metalens: Cybernetics Start Here Guide I’ve been generating lenses at quite a clip… the idea of a Squidoo lens is to provide a view to…
- Squidoo Lens: Systems Thinking by: dsoul
  January 26, 2006, 22:25
  Systems Thinking The term systems thinking is often linked to the work of Peter Senge...the range of fields that are sometimes linked to the term include…
- Cybernetics Wikispace by: dsoul
  January 26, 2006, 22:23
  By dhcsoul on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 In addition to my blogs, Suidoo lenses, and ning playgrounds relating to Cybernetics and the sytems sciences,…
- Squidoo: Invention and Innovation by: dsoul
  January 26, 2006, 22:17
  Not yet 23 Squidoo Its not quite there (yet) but when complete this new lens will be: A look at Invention and Innovation over the ages -- with a special…
- Two for the Show by: dsoul
  January 26, 2006, 22:15
  I've been busy setting up more entries on Squidoo. Have a look at these "lenses"... Systems Thinking The term systems thinking is often linked to the work…
- NaradaBrokering (research group) by: dhcsoul
  January 16, 2006, 03:18
  "The Naranda Brokering project at the Community Grids Lab is an open source project that researches fundamental issues pertaining to distributed middleware…
- Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design by: dhcsoul
  January 15, 2006, 23:33
  Paul Pangaro on HCI and Interaction Design Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design This page provides pointers into content…
- Cybernetics of Human Computer Interaction by: dhcsoul
  January 15, 2006, 23:30
  Cybernetics of Human Computer Interaction The Cybernetics of HCI: A Pragmatic Approach This video clip (approx 1 1/2 hours) gives a good introduction to…
- Aiding Collaboration Among Humans and Complex Software Agents by: dhcsoul
  January 15, 2006, 22:20
  by C. Martin, D. Schreckenghost, P. Bonasso, D. Kortenkamp, T. Milam, and C. ThronesberyNASA Johnson Space Center TRACLabs AbstractThis paper…
- A Cybernetics and Systems Thinking Bookshelf by: dhcsoul
  January 14, 2006, 06:45
  I have an application running on the "ning" playground that "shelves" some of the many books I have in my personal library in these areas.... many have a brief…
- Cybernetics - start here guide by: dhcsoul
  January 13, 2006, 04:49
  originally put in place for a predecessor weblog (http://cep.weblogger.com) this page was still under construction at the time that this website…
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: 2006 by: dhcsoul
  January 13, 2006, 00:28
  SMC The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics will be held October 8-11, 2006 at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan. Important…
- Automating Invention: Norbert Weiner on Computer Automation and Work by: dhcsoul
  January 13, 2006, 00:08
  Robert Plotkin ('Automating Invention") often writes about the economic effects of computer automation including the drive to develop and market skills that…
- Squidoo Lens: Viable Systems Model by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:31
  l Another Squidoo lens .... This one dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his VSM. It is especially interested in the…
- Squidoo Lens: Cybernetics by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:31
  This is my primary lens on cybernetics on Squidoo;.... the others are meant to complement this one, and infact to allow deeper drill down on specific…
- Squidoo Lens: Cybernetic Lens by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:30
  I've been participating in the Squidoo Beta ...I now have several lenses that deal with the subjects of Cybernetics and General Systems Theory...…
- NIST Cybernetic Building System Program by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:29
  Building and Fire Research Laboratory Program: Cybernetic Building System "During the next ten years, the building controls industry in the United States will…
- A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:28
  "This is a list, with reviews of suggested books, periodicals, television shows and computer programs for a classroom curriculum or individual study in…
- Cybernetics: a definition by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:23
  Paul Pangaro wrote a definition of the field for the 1991 Macmillan Encyclopedia of Computers but what is special here is embodied in the figure showing the…
- intelligent modelling & control products for process industy by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:23
  ABOUT PROCESS CYBERNETICS LTD. "Process Cybernetics is a young company whose aim is to provide leading edge intellingent modelling and control technologies…
- Real Time Process Control over the Internet by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:22
  This slide presentation (pdf here) was made by Dr. Hari Gunasingham, CEO Eutech Cybernetics at the Regional Industrial Networking Conference (2004) claims…
- Defining Cybernetics by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:21
  "the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine" - Norber Wiener -So said the man who first used the word in the context of modern…
- A History and Development of Cybernetics by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:21
  This slide presentation covers the history and development of cybernetics ... It covers some of the fundamental principles of the field and while there is…
- The Official Stafford Beer Web site by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:19
  This web site is managed by Liverpool John Moores University, with the consent of the Beer family, to portray the holistic nature of Stafford Beer and his…
- Cwarel Isaf Institute by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:18
  "The Cwarel Isaf Institute was founded to make the life's work of Stafford Beer available to society.Stafford Beer's thinking and the avenues he…
- Viable Systems Model: A briefing about Organizational Structure by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:18
  The Viable System Model (VSM) offers a holistic form of observing collective behaviours in today’s societies. Its history goes back into the late 1950s.…
- An overview of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:17
  Intended Audience: Intelligent laymen interested in "How things really work" and how they could work better .... Why do our organizations have so…
- The VSM - a guide for co-operatives and federations by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 07:16
  How to design a healthy business:The use of the Viable Systems Model in the diagnosis and design of organisational structures in co-operatives and other…
- Computing like ants by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 06:52
  Danna Voth, "Holonics in Manufacturing: Bringing Intelligence Closer to the Machine," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 19, no. 6, 2004, pp. 4-6. "Arthur…
- A Mob is a Mob... smart just makes it hurt more by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 05:21
  I'll have something to say about the cybernetics of the situation in future posts... for now its just interesting to note that in France, and…
- Matryoshka by: dhcsoul
  January 11, 2006, 04:24
  Russian Dolls or A Cybernetic View of Systems – Part IWe will start with the premise that we are interested in things that are connected. Never…
- 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (April 18 - 21, 2006) by: dhcsoul
  January 9, 2006, 06:21
  "Cybernetics - "the study of communication and control in the animal and the machine" (N.Wiener) - has recently returned to the forefront, not only in…
- Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems: Theory and Practice by: dhcsoul
  January 9, 2006, 06:16
  Dr. Whitaker's ACM siggroup pages on 'Self-organization' (which is a popular theme in current studies of human social activity, enterprises, and…
- Autopoiesis Reading Plan by: dhcsoul
  January 9, 2006, 06:03
  Reading Plan for Further Study by Randall Whitaker..."I have introduced people to, and tutored them on, autopoietic theory for a number of years. The…
- Squidoo Lens: Viable Systems Model by: dhcsoul
  January 9, 2006, 03:38
  Squidoo : Lenses : Viable System Model This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his VSM. It is especially…
- A start here guide to Cybernetics on Squidoo.... by: dhcsoul
  January 5, 2006, 03:21
  Squidoo : Lenses : Cybernetics: A Squidoo Meta Lens This lens is intended to provide a view of the many resources available here on Squidoo that cover the…
- Managerial Cybernetics by: dsoul
  December 18, 2005, 13:11
  Anyone familiar with the work of Stafford Beer in the area of Viable Systems (VSM) will want to see the practical application of the model and the role that…
- One Lens to View Them All: A Squidoo Cybernetics Metalens by: dsoul
  December 16, 2005, 16:46
  I've been generating lenses at quite a clip... the idea of a Squidoo lens is to provide a view to chunks of knowledge about a particular topic.... and since…
- Closure of a Program by: dsoul
  December 16, 2005, 11:20
  At the University of Bradford (UK) its been announced that the Department of Cybernetics, Internet and Virtual Systems is closed with effect from January.…
- Much Squidoo by: dsoul
  December 13, 2005, 13:29
  So I've been busy over at Squidoo.... you can find there several different lenses that I have started work on... all these are still works in progress, but…
- Category: In Extremis (15)
  - Gould: we are stewards of life's continuity on earth by: dhcsoul
    December 23, 2008, 01:36
    Image via Wikipedia "We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We…
  - Doubt greets IMF bailout offers | csmonitor.com by: dhcsoul
    November 22, 2008, 01:23
    Doubt greets IMF bailout offers The fund seeks to soften effects of the financial collapse, but many Asian leaders – citing bad advice from the '97 crisis…
  - Alan Greenspan: Wrong by: dhcsoul
    November 19, 2008, 00:46
    Image via Wikipedia“Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial…
  - The REAL Maverick: Present Economy worse than Depression by: dhcsoul
    November 16, 2008, 23:33
    PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics (and…
  - Fannie Freddie Phony - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com by: dhcsoul
    November 16, 2008, 20:32
    Image via WikipediaFannie Freddie Phony - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com. Klugman takes Arnold Schwarzenegger to task for his false statement about a…
  - Occam's Razor by: dsoul
    July 22, 2008, 16:29
    Occam's Razor
  - Breadcrumbs for 2007-04-02 by: dsoul
    April 1, 2007, 20:17
    O'reilly shows their true colors hypocrites are most funny when caught.... Tim gained mainstream press when he called Amazon evil.... his company is more…
  - Yet More Squidoo by: dsoul
    January 26, 2006, 22:11
    Yet More Squidoo By dhcsoul on Monday, December 12, 2005 Another Squidoo Lens: "An investigation into errors, especially those where poor design sets…
  - The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:18
    In this book by Simon Head (Oxford University Press, 2003) the author maintains that information technology is being used not to liberate workers from drudgery…
  - Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:17
    Seldom do book publishers cover notes reflect the reality of the contents. Even rarer is the case where they understate the charm and impact that a book can…
  - A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics. by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:14
    A reading of a pair of articles from Technology Review.com is instructive about how "received doctrine" can become established fact...and even in the face of…
  - Technology over Tsunami ? by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:11
    David Coursey isn't so sure that a computerized monitoring system would have saved lives.... human nature being what it is.... What none of the newswires&n…
  - 'Airlines have become way too dependent on computers' by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:09
    Airlines' computer systems questioned according to this report carried on CNN.com ....Tuesday, December 28, 2004 Posted: 1524 GMT (2324 HKT) ATLANTA,…
  - Human error: models and management by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:07
    A most interesting article in BMJ (British Medical journal) ..... BMJ 2000;320:768-770 ( 18 March )Education and debate Human error: models and…
  - Electrical Blackouts: A Systemic Problem by: dhcsoul
    January 13, 2006, 04:05
    "Although human error can be the proximate cause of a blackout, the real causes are found much deeper in the power system..... " "Promises to end blackouts…
- Category: Theories & Models (8)
  - To Change Ourselves: A Personal VSM by Allena Leonard by: Bricoleur
    June 3, 2010, 22:33
    Image via Wikipedia Teaching the Viable Systems Model to people without an organizational setting to frame the exercise can be challenging. It is not…
  - Forecasting human behaviour carries big risks by: Bricoleur
    June 2, 2010, 21:40
    Computerised forecasting techniques are certainly useful for stores, but flawed when it comes to complex human issues..... Christine Evans-Pughe …
  - A Bayesian Approach to Short-Term Forecasting by: Bricoleur
    May 30, 2010, 21:07
    A Bayesian Approach to Short-Term Forecasting, P. J. Harrison and C. F. Stevens, Operational Research Quarterly (1970-1977), Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1971), pp.…
  - Viable System Model by: Bricoleur
    May 30, 2010, 14:26
    [dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been…
  - TED: Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics by: Bricoleur
    May 23, 2010, 19:53
    Image via Wikipedia "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I…
  - Blame the culture by: Bricoleur
    May 11, 2010, 22:50
    My sons collected the "mutant" comic books before they went "big time" - I think without too much ill effect. But what if ? - could the "model"…
  - Silly Theory by: dhcsoul
    May 10, 2010, 22:39
    Image via Wikipedia "It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the…
  - When you're wrong, you're wrong ? by: Bricoleur
    May 9, 2010, 09:54
    Image via Wikipedia I was listening to an interesting , albeit very unstructured, discussion on the radio the other day and one of the participants…
- Category: General Cybernetics (3)
  - The Past-Ruture of Cybernetics: Conversations, Von Foerster, and the BCL by: Bricoleur
    June 8, 2010, 16:19
    Paul Pangaro, Ph.D. ABSTRACT To speak ‘Biological Computer Laboratory’ also speaks ‘Heinz von Foerster.’ To invoke von Foerster also invokes…
  - EVERY GOOD REGULATOR OF A SYSTEM MUST BE A MODEL OF THAT SYSTEM by: Bricoleur
    June 8, 2010, 16:02
    Int. J. Systems Sci., 1970, vol. 1, No. 2, 89-97 EVERY GOOD REGULATOR OF A SYSTEM MUST BE A MODEL OF THAT SYSTEM1 Roger C. Conant Department of…
  - Second Order Cybernetics by: Bricoleur
    May 30, 2010, 13:44
    [dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to…
- Category: Management Cybernetics (10)
  - The Viable System Model in the analysis of the project management by: Bricoleur
    June 8, 2010, 15:56
    Image via Wikipedia Abstract Lappeenranta University of Technology electrical engineering department Arseniy Krasikov The Viable System Model in the…
  - Governance of Economic Transitions: A Case Study of Ukraine by: Bricoleur
    June 8, 2010, 15:50
    by Andriy Sergeyev and Alfredo Moscardini CAST (Cybernetics and Applied Systems Thinking) Centre, University of Sunderland, UK Key words: VSM, Governance,…
  - Organizational Cybernetics For Waste Management Authorities: A Case Study by: Bricoleur
    June 8, 2010, 15:41
    by Christos Dodis, Konstantinos Kitis, Demetrios Panagiotakopoulos EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper is concerned with the organization and the operational…
  - Architecture as system by: Bricoleur
    June 6, 2010, 22:05
    Image via Wikipedia Architecture as system Enterprise-architecture, service-architecture and the Viable System Model Tom Graves : Tetradian Consulting J…
  - A VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL APPROACH TO ENTERPRISE RESOURCES by: Bricoleur
    June 6, 2010, 21:40
    1Badillo, I., 2Tejeida, R., 3Morales, O. 1,2,3 Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México. ABSTRACT The Viable System Model (VSM) is recursive and helps…
  - Javier Livas’ videos on cybernetics by: Bricoleur
    June 4, 2010, 18:11
    Javier Livas’ videos on cybernetics in the sequence preferred by the author: all of them in YouTube: Feedback Feedback/Stafford Beer What is…
  - Barry Clemson <[scientist <> acivist <> novelist]> by: Bricoleur
    June 4, 2010, 14:46
    Liberty. Equality. Justice Governments must be redesigned to achieve these core values. My activism, fiction, and science are aimed at these core…
  - The VSM Applied to Complex Organizations in Crisis by: Bricoleur
    June 3, 2010, 23:13
    Address to the 2nd Cwarel Isaf Institute Conference Allenna Leonard, Ph.D. So, the first tool I’d pack if I had the chance to outfit Obama’s…
  - A Bayesian Approach to Short-Term Forecasting by: Bricoleur
    May 30, 2010, 21:07
    A Bayesian Approach to Short-Term Forecasting, P. J. Harrison and C. F. Stevens, Operational Research Quarterly (1970-1977), Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1971), pp.…
  - Viable System Model by: Bricoleur
    May 30, 2010, 14:26
    [dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been…
Category: 3rd Places of Learning (10)
- Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business by: Bricoleur
  June 2, 2010, 20:22
  This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the…
- Microsoft Tag | Bricoleur Systems by: dhcsoul
  January 8, 2009, 00:13
  Using Microsoft Tag (currently in beta) you can make almost anything you want interactive. Link real life with the digital world, by adding a tag to…
- Edge | What Will Change Everything? The 2009 Question by: dhcsoul
  January 1, 2009, 14:09
  WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING? "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" Contributors: Alan Alda , Chris…
- Ubiquity: control for the user of the web by: dhcsoul
  December 18, 2008, 21:13
  Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Ubiquity's goals are to: Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions.…
- Breadcrumbs for December 15th through 20:44 by: dhcsoul
  December 17, 2008, 13:12
  Image via Wikipedia These are my links for December 15th from 20:44 to 20:44: WorldChanging: Award-Winning Solutions Journalism - About Worldchangin…
- Scobleizer: Half Life of an Online Conversation by: dhcsoul
  November 23, 2008, 20:26
  Robert Scoble suggests that back in 2000 (when there were few blogs) it was not unusual for a conversation to take place through the blog comments…
- Breadcrumbs for November 20th through 15:24 by: dhcsoul
  November 20, 2008, 18:12
  These are my links for November 20th from 15:18 to 15:24: Planning to Share versus Just Sharing at EdTechPost - This is a long post, born out of…
- Breadcrumbs for November 19th through 01:05 by: dhcsoul
  November 19, 2008, 21:07
  These are my links for November 19th from 00:33 to 01:05: Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On - Though today we stand at the cusp of…
- Third Places of Learning - discussion on Tangler by: dhcsoul
  September 7, 2007, 06:30
  I've started a commversation on Tangler about third places of learning. The conversation revolves around a presentation by Teemu Arina. Here's his own…
- Third Places of Learning by: dhcsoul
  June 28, 2007, 23:09
  This slide presentation was a keynote at the June 2007 EDEN Conference (Naples - European Distance and E-Learning Confernce) . Unfortunately, as with…

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