Principia Cybernetica News - March/April 1996

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Tue, 7 May 1996 19:12:32 +0200


The following nodes in Principia Cybernetica Web have undergone substantive
editing, or have been newly added during the months of March and April,
1996. (all documents are available via
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/recent.html)

* F. Heylighen: Biographical Sketch (update)
* Cybernetics and Systems Theory (new overview of the available material)
* Welcome to the Principia Cybernetica Web (update)
* our Glossary has been expanded with several hundreds of new nodes and
has now become a real Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems! (new)
* Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (added link to K. Van Damme's PCP
intro)
* About Francis Heylighen (minor update)
* Symposium: Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace (Final Program)
* Links on Future Development (several new links on futurology)
* Links on Computer Interfaces and the Web (many new links on web
methodologies)
* Links on Indexes and Encyclopedias (dozens of links added on search
engines, book catalogs, etc.)
* Links on Indexes and Encyclopedias (new)
* Links on Future Development (new)
* Links on Philosophy (new)
* Links on Evolutionary Theory and Memetics (new)
* Links on Computer Interfaces and the Web (new)
* Links on Cognitive Science and AI (new)
* Links on Complexity, Self-organization and Artificial Life (new)
* Links on Cybernetics and Systems (new)
* Internet Resources related to Principia Cybernetica (reorganization of
links in separate subdocuments)
* History of the Principia Cybernetica Project (update)
* References to Principia Cybernetica in different servers (evaluation by
Point added)

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The following topics were announced or discussed on the PRNCYB-L mailing
list (see http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/mail.html) during the months of March
and April (the full text of all original messages and eventual replies is
available via the PRNCYB-L archive:
http://bruce.edmonds.name/PRNCYB-L/thread.html)

* Comments from Hans Cees about path dependence - Jeff Prideaux
* some comments on path dependence - Jeff Prideaux
* Dialogue, please! - Boris G Freesman, Q.C.
* path dependency - Bruce Edmonds
* New member: Bin Srinidhi - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Jed Harris - Cliff Joslyn
* CFP: IIGSS, Texas, January 1997 (fwd) - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Richard Nance - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Dziergwa Jean Pierre - Cliff Joslyn
* 1997 ASC meeting (fwd) - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Dan Parker - Cliff Joslyn
* 1997 Cyberfest at U of Illinois (fwd) - Cliff Joslyn
* Expanded Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems on the Web! - Francis
Heylighen
* Gordon Pask - In Memoriam (fwd) - Cliff Joslyn
* Information please: Baden-Baden conference? - Cliff Joslyn
* Pask Obit - Cliff Joslyn
* Conference proceedings "Commerce, Complexity & Evolution" - Steve Keen
* Hierarchies. Again! - Boris G Freesman, Q.C.
* New member: John McGoey - Cliff Joslyn
* CALL FOR ABSTRACTS [LONG] (fwd) - E. Andres Garcia
* PCP & SimDavis [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
* An Outsider's Introduction to PCP - Francis Heylighen
* Gordon Pask - Cliff Joslyn
* Conf. SOC. FOR CHAOS THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY & LIFE SCIENCES[fwd] - Francis
Heylighen
* MEd Thesis about knowledge structures on the Web [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
* New member: Rodrigo Cordoba - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Paul Moses - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Chris Bauer - Cliff Joslyn
* Some fun: a recent PRNCYB-L error message - Cliff Joslyn
* Papers on evolution of altruism etc. [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
* published papers on homepage - Jeff Prideaux
* The Growth of Structural and Functional Complexity - Bruce Edmonds
* Preprints available on complexity - DON MIKULECKY
* New member: Doug Moore - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Bela A Banathy - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Nir Harel - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Mark Nadler - Cliff Joslyn
* A complete reference on Darwin and evolution [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
* Discussion on self-organizing graphs - Jerry_LR_Chandler

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Dr. Francis Heylighen, Systems Researcher fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32-2-6292525; Fax +32-2-6292489; http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html