{"id":9359,"date":"2019-08-26T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.bcsss.org\/2019\/heinz-von-foerster-society-president-albert-mueller-passes-on-the-legacy-of-the-systems-sciences\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:00:03","slug":"heinz-von-foerster-society-president-albert-mueller-passes-on-the-legacy-of-the-systems-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/2019\/heinz-von-foerster-society-president-albert-mueller-passes-on-the-legacy-of-the-systems-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinz von Foerster Society president Albert M\u00fcller passes on the legacy of the systems sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/zeitgeschichte\/albert-mueller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert M\u00fcller<\/a>, a dear Austrian colleague, co-founder and president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/hvf11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heinz von Foerster Society<\/a> in Vienna, passed away unexpectly on August 6 after a short illness. Throughout his life, he was dedicated to the safekeeping and to passing on the legacy of the systems sciences.<\/p>\n<p>As co-editor of the Austrian Journal of History and Studies of Historical Social Science, he put together the articles for <em>An Unfinished Revolution?: Heinz von Foerster <\/em>and <em>The Biological Computer Laboratory\/ BCL 1958-1976. <\/em>He also contributed to <em>The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has no Name: Seven Days with Second Order Cybernetics.<\/em> This book is considered to mark the origins of cybernetics through conversations in Von Foerster&#8217;s house in Pescadero, CA. M\u00fcller worked passionately as a Board member of the \u00bbAustrian Society for Contemporary History\u00ab. He collected not only von Foerster\u2019s Papers, he also gathered the papers of many contemporary cyberneticians, organized them and made them available.<\/p>\n<p>Through the International Federation for Systems Research and later the American Society for Cybernetics we had the honor to work with Albert M\u00fcller, a silent but sound thinker, often critique, but always open minded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert M\u00fcller, a dear Austrian colleague, co-founder and president of the Heinz von Foerster Society in Vienna, passed away unexpectly on August 6 after a short illness. Throughout his life, he was dedicated to the safekeeping and to passing on the legacy of the systems sciences. As co-editor of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[4730,4903],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcsss.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}