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Ijams, Karl, 1967

Hughes, Harold, 1969

Fairbanks, G.d.A

Correspondence, January-July 1925

Correspondence, May-August 1914

Correspondence, 1913

Correspondence fragments, undated

Alden, Carlos C., Jr.

Albert, Mrs. Aurice V.

Allis, William P.

Correspondence, June-September 1941

Correspondence, January - March 1945

Correspondence, January – December 1944

Correspondence, January – December 1944

Correspondence, March 1947

Correspondence, March 1948

Correspondence, January-June 1942

Correspondence, January 16-31 1947

Volume 8 (October, 1944 – June, 1945), pp. 1800 – 1959

Von Foerster, H. : "On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments," in SelfOrganizing Systems, M.C. Yovits & S. Cameron (eds)., Pergamon Press, London, 31-50 (1960).

Von Foerster, Heinz, "On Contrstructing a Reality," BCL Publication 234

Gunderson, Norman, 1975

TR No. 5: Discrete Two Dimensional Property Detectors, Douglas H. Taylor, April 15, 1962

Frankl, Viktor, 1964, 1974

Flores, Fernando, 1974-76

Gruberg, Ed, 1975

Gaburo, Kenneth, 1974

Ashby, W. Ross, 1960-73 (2 of 3)

Bateson, Gregory, 1971-74

Bogdanski, Casimir, 1965-1966, 1969

Bert, Paul A., 1966

Beer, Stafford, 1973-74

Ashby, W. Ross - Obituary, 1976 (2 of 2)

Bellugi-Klima, Ursula, 1969

Boernstein, Walter S., 1970, 1974

Boehm, Josef, 1971-72

Animal Welfare, 1975

Bohne, Walter, 1963

Fogel, Lawrence, 1958-65, 1967, 1969-70 (1 of 2)

Kolbert, Kitty, 1972

  • Ijams, Karl, 1967
    Document | 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...
  • Hughes, Harold, 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...
  • Fairbanks, G.d.A
    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...
  • Correspondence, January-July 1925
    Document | 1925
  • Correspondence, May-August 1914
    Document | 1914
  • Correspondence, 1913
    Document | 1913
  • Correspondence fragments, undated
    Document
  • Alden, Carlos C., Jr.
    Document | 1951The 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...
  • Albert, Mrs. Aurice V.
    Document | 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.
  • Allis, William P.
    Document | 1962The 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...
  • Correspondence, June-September 1941
    Document | 1941
  • Correspondence, January - March 1945
    Document | 1945
  • Correspondence, January – December 1944
    Document | 1944
  • Correspondence, January – December 1944
    Document | 1944
  • Correspondence, March 1947
    Document | 1947
  • Correspondence, March 1948
    Document | 1948
  • Correspondence, January-June 1942
    Document | 1942
  • Correspondence, January 16-31 1947
    Document | 1947
  • Volume 8 (October, 1944 – June, 1945), pp. 1800 – 1959
    Document | 1944-1945The 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.
  • Von Foerster, H. : "On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments," in SelfOrganizing Systems, M.C. Yovits & S. Cameron (eds)., Pergamon Press, London, 31-50 (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...
  • Von Foerster, Heinz, "On Contrstructing a Reality," BCL Publication 234
    Document | 1973Biological 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...
  • Gunderson, Norman, 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...
  • TR No. 5: Discrete Two Dimensional Property Detectors, Douglas H. Taylor, April 15, 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...
  • Frankl, Viktor, 1964, 1974
    Document | 1974Papers 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...
  • Flores, Fernando, 1974-76
    Document | 1974-1976Papers 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...
  • Gruberg, Ed, 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...
  • Gaburo, Kenneth, 1974
    Document | 1974Papers 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...
  • Ashby, W. Ross, 1960-73 (2 of 3)
    Document | 1960-1973Papers 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...
  • Bateson, Gregory, 1971-74
    Document | 1971-1974Papers 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...
  • Bogdanski, Casimir, 1965-1966, 1969
    Document | 1965-1966Papers 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...
  • Bert, Paul A., 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...
  • Beer, Stafford, 1973-74
    Document | 1973-1974Papers 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...
  • Ashby, W. Ross - Obituary, 1976 (2 of 2)
    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...
  • Bellugi-Klima, Ursula, 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...
  • Boernstein, Walter S., 1970, 1974
    Document | 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...
  • Boehm, Josef, 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...
  • Animal Welfare, 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...
  • Bohne, Walter, 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...
  • Fogel, Lawrence, 1958-65, 1967, 1969-70 (1 of 2)
    Document | 1958-1965Papers 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...
  • Kolbert, Kitty, 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...
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