We are happy to announce that Joel de Rosnay is joining PCP as a new
"associate" (see http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/masthead.html). Joel is a systems
theorist, futurologist, molecular biologist and prolific writer of popular
science books on topics related to the cybernetic world view. He is
presently Director of Strategy of the Cit=E9 des Sciences et de l'Industrie
at La Villette (Paris, France). His book "The Macroscope", a systemic view
of the world as whole, will soon be made available on the Web with the
support of PCP. Joel is in particular interested in the "cybernetic
organism" formed by global society and its "planetary brain" emerging out
of the computer networks. His home page, with interviews and excerpts from
his work can be found at http://www.cite-sciences.fr/derosnay/e-index.html
The people involved with the electronic "Journal of Memetics", associated
with PCP, have set up their (still experimental) web site for the
publication of memetics related articles. The first papers should be
published in the next few months.
WHAT'S NEW IN PCP WEB
The following nodes in Principia Cybernetica Web have undergone substantive
editing, or have been newly added during the months of November and
December, 1996. (all documents are available via
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/recent.html)
* Dec 16, 1996: What are Cybernetics and Systems Science? (links added)
* Dec 12, 1996: Cybernetics and Systems Thinkers (new!)
* Dec 11, 1996: The Economy as a Distributed, Learning Control System
(paper by F. Heylighen, to be published in the journal "Communication &
Cognition-AI") (new!)
* Dec 9, 1996: What is complexity? (new!)
* Dec 9, 1996: What is a world view? (new!)
* Dec 9, 1996: Cluster Analysis of Word Associations (new!)
* Dec 5, 1996: About Jean-Marc Dewaele (bibliography updated)
* Dec 4, 1996: Belgium: Overview (links added)
* Dec 2, 1996: Changes-Additions 1995-96 (new!)
* Nov 21, 1996: List of contributors (several homepages of contributors adde=
d)
* Nov 21, 1996: Links on Cybernetics and Systems (links added)
* Nov 12, 1996: Self-organization and complexity in the natural sciences (ne=
w!)
* Nov 12, 1996: Complex Adaptive Systems (new!)
* Nov 12, 1996: Relation to other disciplines (extended)
* Nov 6, 1996: History of Cybernetics and Systems Science (extended new
text added)
* Nov 6, 1996: Classic Publications on Complex, Evolving Systems (new!)
* Nov 6, 1996: Classic publications on complex, evolving systems: a
citation-based survey (paper by F. Heylighen, submitted to the journal
"Complexity")
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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