Bertalanffy and Vernadsky
Vladimir I. Vernadsky is the Russian founder of Biogeochemistry. He died in 1945. On the occasion of his 150th birthday several scientific institutions met at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin for a conference on 15th March 2013 (at the same building Vernadsky held two lectures in 1927). Wolfgang Hofkirchner…
Vienna 2011 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy 110 Aniversary
In 2011 there was the 110th anniversary of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s birthday. Thanks to sufficient funding, the BCSSS could organise two LvB 110 Events on 9 and 10 November 2011 and invite renown systems theorists from abroad. On the eve of a one-day symposium David Pouvreau held a public lecture…
Vienna 2001 | Bertalanffy’s 100 Anniversary Conference (BAC 2001)
Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference 2001 The very first call to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Bertalanffy’s Birthday were essentially concerned with the conceptual of General Systems Weltanschauung as an indispensable framework needed for helping the humans to search how to make sustainable the dynamics of their civilization. The first announcement was…
Manfred Drack back from Rostock
Manfred Drack was invited for a PostDoc position at Prof. Olaf Wolkenhauser ‘s Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Rostock and is now, after one year, back in Austria. He tried to make the early system approaches useful for today’s systems biology.
Presentation at the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Sociocybernetics
by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Wolfgang Hofkirchner gave a presentation at the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Sociocybernetics annual meeting. The 9th Conference on Sociocybernetics was titled “Modernity 2.0 – Emerging Social Media Technologies and their impacts” and held in Urbino. Hofkirchner presented a paper on how the system theoretical perspective…
BCSSS members at the EMCSR 2008
19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research Gerhard Chroust, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Manfred Drack present (co-authored) papers at the EMCSR 2008 (25. – 28.3.2008) with the titles: Vienna Systems Archive – Dream or More? The Web as Techno-Social System: The Emergence of Web 3.0 (download here) Early System Thinking…
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Bertalanffy-Weiss-article
On the Making of a System Theory of Life: Paul A. Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Conceptual Connection In the December 2007 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology an article “On the Making of a System Theory of Life: Paul A. Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Conceptual Connection” will…
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