Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete ...
    Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cybernetics. These conferences, known as the Macy conferences, constituted a landmark for the field.
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    Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics. Warren S. McCulloch. Appendix II: References. Index. EDITORIAL NOTE. This edition includes the complete text of the five volume documentation of the Macy-Conferences on Cybernetics, edited by Heinz von Foerster.*
    Claus Pias (ed.): Cybernetics. The Macy Conferences 1946 ...
    Between 1946 and 1953 ten conferences under the heading "Cybernetics. Circular, Causal, and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems" were held. Sponsored by Josiah Macy Jr., the so-called Macy Conferences mark perhaps the most important event in the history of science after WW II.
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    The Macy Conferences were a set of meetings of scholars from various disciplines held in New York under the direction of Frank Fremont-Smith at the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation starting in 1941 and ending in 1960. The explicit aim of the conferences was to promote meaningful communication across scientific disciplines, and restore unity to science. There were different sets of conferences designed to cover specific topics, for a total of 160 conferences over the 19 years this program was active;
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    The participants in the Macy conference series (1946–1953) were concerned with identifying biological dynamics that could be designed and instantiated in man-made machines and mechanisms (physical, social, cultural) . The participation of Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Heinz von Foerster (as well as other social scientists) in these meetings allowed the relevance of the cybernetics formalisms to seep into less formalized realms—identified as “soft” cybernetics—as well as the
    : Appendix I: References (1952). in: Cybernetics. The Macy ...
    Claus Pias (ed.) Cybernetics The Macy Conferences 1946–1953. The Complete Transactions. With a foreword by Claus Pias