After the busy activities at the end of 1997, the beginning of 1998 was
relatively quiet. Alex Riegler has started to work at the Brussels PCP
office at the end of January. He has joined the project as an editorial
assistant. The new address of his home page is
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/riegler/ He has also submitted a research project
on "Evolutionary Complexification of Knowledge Systems". If this
application is accepted, he will get a 3 year postdoc research contract to
work with us.
Contributions for two PCP co-organized sessions are being collected. (see
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/act.html) If you consider submitting an abstract
to the
symposium on memetics (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMETSY.html), let me
remind you that the deadline for submission is March 10, that is, next
week. (the deadline for the session on Semiotics of Autonomous Information
Systems has already passed).
Some of you may remember the symposium on "The Evolution of Complexity",
organized by PCP in 1995 in Brussels (see
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EINMAGSY.html). The most important papers
presented at this symposium, plus a few other selected papers, have been
bundled into a book. This volume (the "violet book" in the 8 volume series
Proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference "Einstein meets Magritte",
see http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CLEA/publications.html) has finally been
typeset, and proofs have been sent for correction to the authors. This
means that in a few months, it should be available from the publisher,
Kluwer Academic.
Since we regularly get questions about the existence of study programs in
the domain of cybernetics and systems, it seems worth noting the
organization of the 5th European School of Systems Science, in Neuchatel,
Switzerland, Sept. 7-11, 1998 (see http://www.unine.ch/CIESYS/ECOLE.html),
although this is independent of PCP.
WHAT'S NEW IN PCP WEB
The following nodes in Principia Cybernetica Web have undergone substantive
editing, or have been newly added. All documents are available via
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/recent.html
* Feb 27, 1998: Links on Indexes and Encyclopedias (links added)
* Feb 18, 1998: What are Cybernetics and Systems Science? (links added)
* Feb 17, 1998: Principia Cybernetica Masthead (Alex Riegler added)
* Jan 30, 1998: Links on Future Development (links added)
* Jan 28, 1998: Ben Cullen: "Parasite Ecology and the Evolution of
Religion", a fascinating paper by a researcher who died too young (new!)
* Jan 28, 1998: Memetics (clarified and expanded)
* Jan 19, 1998: Collaborators Needed (updated)
* Jan 14, 1998: Cybernetics and Systems Thinkers (added Morin, Atlan & book
search)
* Jan 12, 1998: Cybernetics and Systems Thinkers (Pask link added)
* Jan 12, 1998: Principia Cybernetica Meetings (updated with 2 meetings)
* Jan 12, 1998: Cybernetics and Systems Journals (Journal of Complex
Systems added)
* Jan 9, 1998: CALL FOR PAPERS: SYMPOSIUM on MEMETICS (new!)
DISCUSSIONS ON PRNCYB-L
The following topics were announced or discussed on the PRNCYB-L mailing
list (see http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/mail.html). The full text of all
original messages and replies is available via the PRNCYB-L archive:
http://www.fmb.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce/PRNCYB-L/thread.html
* attraction - Henry COHEN
* two questions - Henry COHEN
* CFP: Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
* Re: Thought problem - comments - John J. Kineman
* What discipline is this? - John J. Kineman
* Re: epistemology & will - John J. Kineman
* CFP: Semiotics of Autonomous Information Systems - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Bob Watson - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Richard Coren - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Jack Martinelli - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Joanne Doyle - Cliff Joslyn
* New member: Yuri Demchenko - Cliff Joslyn
* WESSconference VI Abstracts Feb. 15, 1998 (fwd) - Cliff Joslyn
* Re: epistemology - Alexei Sharov
* Re: epistemology - a thought exercise - Jixuan Hu
* CFP: Semiotics and Autonomous Information Systems [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
* New journal - Journal of Complex Systems [fwd] - Francis Heylighen
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