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Varela, F.G., Maturana, H.R., and Uribe, R.: "Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, its Characterization and a Model", Biosystems, 5 (4), 187-196 (1974).

TR No. 3: The Present Theory of Switching and Some of Its Future Trends, A. A. Mullin, July 1960

Gordon, Charles Kenneth, 1963, 1965, 1967

Greene, Peter, 1962, 1966, 1970-72, 1974 (1 of 2)

Günther, Gotthard (3 of 5)

Ackoff, Russ, 1975

Blum, Harry, 1964-70, 1972

Benedict, Stephen 1972-73

Günther, Gotthard (2 of 5)

Ballonhoff, P.A., 1976

Bloch, Susanna, 1964

Freedman, David, 1964-67, 1969

Frankl, Viktor, 1963

Meyer, Francois, 1975

Francis, W.J., 1969

Bryson, David, 1968

Burke, Tom, 1967-68

Buchberger, Bruno, 1968

Burkholder, Mrs. Donald, 1971

Brün, Herbert, 1967-70, 1973-74 (3 of 3)

Andrew, Alexander Miller

Ames, Adelbert, III

Andermann, Karl

Adamson, V.T.

Correspondence, October-December 1946

Correspondence, September-December 1940

Correspondence, October-December 1941

Correspondence, September-December 1948

Correspondence, May-June 1948

Mead, Margaret

Gaffoney, Dan

Transcription_Ashby_3_411-684_1931-39.pdf

Volume 3 (October, 1931 – October, 1939), pp. 411 – 684

Volume 16 (July, 1952 – December, 1952), pp. 3942 – 4291.

Garol, Hugh W.

Transcription_Ashby_10_2252-2429_1947-48.pdf

Volume 2 (July, 1930 – October, 1931), pp. 161 – 410

Volume 12 (December, 1949 – December, 1950), pp. 2697 – 3050.

Volume 13 (December, 1950 – April, 1951), pp. 3051 – 3232.

Transcription_Ashby_13_3051-3232_1950-51.pdf

  • Varela, F.G., Maturana, H.R., and Uribe, R.: "Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, its Characterization and a Model", Biosystems, 5 (4), 187-196 (1974).
    Document | 1974Biological Computer Laboratory Publications including proposals, reports, technical reports and publications lists for research projects supported by the Air Force, Navy and National Aeronautics and Space Administration contracts and grants for research on the technological realization of computational mechanisms observed in living organisms, the theory and application of co...
  • TR No. 3: The Present Theory of Switching and Some of Its Future Trends, A. A. Mullin, July 1960
    Document | 1960Biological Computer Laboratory Publications including proposals, reports, technical reports and publications lists for research projects supported by the Air Force, Navy and National Aeronautics and Space Administration contracts and grants for research on the technological realization of computational mechanisms observed in living organisms, the theory and application of co...
  • Gordon, Charles Kenneth, 1963, 1965, 1967
    Document | 1963Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Greene, Peter, 1962, 1966, 1970-72, 1974 (1 of 2)
    Document | 1962Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Günther, Gotthard (3 of 5)
    DocumentPapers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Ackoff, Russ, 1975
    Document | 1975Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Blum, Harry, 1964-70, 1972
    Document | 1972Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Benedict, Stephen 1972-73
    Document | 1972-1973Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Günther, Gotthard (2 of 5)
    DocumentPapers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Ballonhoff, P.A., 1976
    Document | 1976Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Bloch, Susanna, 1964
    Document | 1964Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Freedman, David, 1964-67, 1969
    Document | 1964-1967Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Frankl, Viktor, 1963
    Document | 1963Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Meyer, Francois, 1975
    Document | 1975Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Francis, W.J., 1969
    Document | 1969Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Bryson, David, 1968
    Document | 1968Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Burke, Tom, 1967-68
    Document | 1967-1968Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Buchberger, Bruno, 1968
    Document | 1968Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Burkholder, Mrs. Donald, 1971
    Document | 1971Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Brün, Herbert, 1967-70, 1973-74 (3 of 3)
    Document | 1967-1970Papers of Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), professor of electrical engineering (1949-74) and biophysics (1962-74) and director of Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) (1958-74) including correspondence relating to cybernetics, BCL, futurism, alternative living, cognitive processes, artificial intelligence, artificial language. Correspondents include W. Ross Ashby, Murray Babc...
  • Andrew, Alexander Miller
    Document | 1953-1956The McCulloch Papers Collection is comprised of 50 linear feet of the professional correspondence of the cyberneticist, psychologist, and philosopher, Warren Sturgis McCulloch. The collection centers on McCulloch's study of the functional organization of the central nervous system and its implications for cybernetic theory.
  • Ames, Adelbert, III
    Document | 1951The McCulloch Papers Collection is comprised of 50 linear feet of the professional correspondence of the cyberneticist, psychologist, and philosopher, Warren Sturgis McCulloch. The collection centers on McCulloch's study of the functional organization of the central nervous system and its implications for cybernetic theory.
  • Andermann, Karl
    Document | 1963-1966The McCulloch Papers Collection is comprised of 50 linear feet of the professional correspondence of the cyberneticist, psychologist, and philosopher, Warren Sturgis McCulloch. The collection centers on McCulloch's study of the functional organization of the central nervous system and its implications for cybernetic theory.
  • Adamson, V.T.
    Document | 1952-1953The McCulloch Papers Collection is comprised of 50 linear feet of the professional correspondence of the cyberneticist, psychologist, and philosopher, Warren Sturgis McCulloch. The collection centers on McCulloch's study of the functional organization of the central nervous system and its implications for cybernetic theory.
  • Correspondence, October-December 1946
    Document | 1946
  • Correspondence, September-December 1940
    Document | 1940
  • Correspondence, October-December 1941
    Document | 1941
  • Correspondence, September-December 1948
    Document | 1947
  • Correspondence, May-June 1948
    Document | 1948
  • Mead, Margaret
    Document | 1945The collection is particularly strong for documenting McCulloch's role in the American Society of Cybernetics, conferences he attended (including the Macy conferences), and his pioneering research in computation and biological computers, as well as basic research in neural structure and function, biological psychiatry, chemical warfare, space biology, and research he conduct...
  • Gaffoney, Dan
    Document | 1968The collection is particularly strong for documenting McCulloch's role in the American Society of Cybernetics, conferences he attended (including the Macy conferences), and his pioneering research in computation and biological computers, as well as basic research in neural structure and function, biological psychiatry, chemical warfare, space biology, and research he conduct...
  • Transcription_Ashby_3_411-684_1931-39.pdf
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  • Volume 3 (October, 1931 – October, 1939), pp. 411 – 684
    Document | 1931-1939The British Library archive consists of journals, index cards, books, manuscripts, notes and offprints, glass slides and letters to and from W. Ross Ashby as well as a small number of letters received by Mrs Elsie Ashby following W. Ross Ashby's death.
  • Volume 16 (July, 1952 – December, 1952), pp. 3942 – 4291.
    Document | 1952The British Library archive consists of journals, index cards, books, manuscripts, notes and offprints, glass slides and letters to and from W. Ross Ashby as well as a small number of letters received by Mrs Elsie Ashby following W. Ross Ashby's death.
  • Garol, Hugh W.
    Document | 1938-1952The collection is particularly strong for documenting McCulloch's role in the American Society of Cybernetics, conferences he attended (including the Macy conferences), and his pioneering research in computation and biological computers, as well as basic research in neural structure and function, biological psychiatry, chemical warfare, space biology, and research he conduct...
  • Transcription_Ashby_10_2252-2429_1947-48.pdf
    Document
  • Volume 2 (July, 1930 – October, 1931), pp. 161 – 410
    Document | 1930-1931The British Library archive consists of journals, index cards, books, manuscripts, notes and offprints, glass slides and letters to and from W. Ross Ashby as well as a small number of letters received by Mrs Elsie Ashby following W. Ross Ashby's death.
  • Volume 12 (December, 1949 – December, 1950), pp. 2697 – 3050.
    Document | 1949-1950The British Library archive consists of journals, index cards, books, manuscripts, notes and offprints, glass slides and letters to and from W. Ross Ashby as well as a small number of letters received by Mrs Elsie Ashby following W. Ross Ashby's death.
  • Volume 13 (December, 1950 – April, 1951), pp. 3051 – 3232.
    Document | 1950-1951The British Library archive consists of journals, index cards, books, manuscripts, notes and offprints, glass slides and letters to and from W. Ross Ashby as well as a small number of letters received by Mrs Elsie Ashby following W. Ross Ashby's death.
  • Transcription_Ashby_13_3051-3232_1950-51.pdf
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