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The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates)

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  • Alan Watts, 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...
  • Bordeaux, Janice
    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...
  • Beal, James
    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...
  • Inselberg, Alfred, 1960, 1962, 1964-73 (1 of 5)
    Document | 1960Papers 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...
  • Fourth Spatial Dimension, 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...
  • Beer, Stafford, 1958-60, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1969-73
    Document | 1958-1960Papers 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...
  • Bogoch, Samuel, 1967, 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...
  • Buerle, R.L., 1966
    Document | 1966Papers 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...
  • Block, David H., 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...
  • Ivakhnenko, Alexy Grigorevich, 1961
    Document | 1961Papers 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...
  • Sondheim, Alan, 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...
  • Correspondence, 1924
    Document | 1924
  • Fogel, Lawrence J.
    Document | 1954-1969The 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.
  • The Encylopaedia Britannica
    Document | 1946-1958The 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.
  • Du Brul, Florence Kirsch
    Document | 1963-1967The 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.
  • Fahnestock, M.K.
    Document | 1949-1950The 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.
  • Enders, Richard O.
    Document | 1956-1957The 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.
  • Eccles, J.C.
    Document | 1947-1948The 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...
  • Bures, J.
    Document | 1960The 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.
  • Fegersten, Letten
    Document | 1960The 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.
  • Stroud, John M.
    Document | 1947The 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.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh, 1975-76 (2 of 3)
    Document | 1975-1976Papers 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...
  • TR No. 4: A Predictive Model for Self Organizing Systems, Gordon Pask and Heinz von Foerster, June 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...
  • The Realization of Biological Computers, Quarterly Progress Report No. 2
    Document | 1958Biological 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. 7: The Set Theory of Mechanism and Homeostasis, W. Ross Ashby, September 1962
    Document | 1962Biological 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...
  • Inselberg, Alfred, 1960, 1962, 1964-73 (4 of 5)
    Document | 1960Papers 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...
  • Iso, Yasoyuki, 1964-67, 1971
    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...
  • Jones, Stanley L., 1966
    Document | 1966Papers 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...
  • Austin, Arthur, 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...
  • Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua, 1971-72
    Document | 1971-1972Papers 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...
  • Bauer, Mariano, 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...
  • Wells, Oliver, 1959, 1967-69, 1971-72
    Document | 1971-1972Papers 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...
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