Macy Conferences
The Macy Conferences (1946-1953) brought together thinkers such as Norbert Wiener, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead and John von Neumann, creating the interdisciplinary meeting ground where cybernetics and systems theory took shape.
The legendary Macy Conferences, held between 1946 and 1953, brought together diverse thinkers like Wiener, Bertalanffy, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and others, creating a fertile, interdisciplinary ground where ideas from cybernetics and systems theory cross-pollinated and developed.
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- Viable System Model (VSM, Stafford Beer) · both placed under Cybernetics
- Society for General Systems Research (later ISSS) · discussed together in section 045
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- Chapter 5, section 045 · The Emergence of Formal Systems Thinking
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