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   Prof. Stuart A. Umpleby
   Address:
   Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
   Department of Management, School of Business, The George Washington University
   2033 K Street NW, Suite 230, Washington, DC 20052, USA
   Tel: (202) 994-1642
   Fax: (202) 994-5284

Biographical Sketch

   Stuart Umpleby is a professor in the Department of Management Science and
   Director of the Center for Social and Organizational Learning at George
   Washington University. He teaches courses in cybernetics and systems theory, the
   philosophy of science, cross-cultural management, and computer simulation. Other
   interests include total quality management, interactive planning methods, and
   computer conferencing.

   He received degrees in engineering, political science, and communications from
   the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. While at the University of
   Illinois he worked in the Biological Computer Laboratory and the Computer-based
   Education Research Laboratory (the PLATO system).

   He has been using and designing computer conferencing systems since 1970. Between
   1977 and 1980 he was the moderator of a computer conference on general systems
   theory which was supported by the National Science Foundation. This project was
   one of nine "experimental trials of electronic information exchange for small
   research communities". About sixty scientists in the United States, Canada, and
   Europe interacted for a period of two and a half years using the Electronic
   Information Exchange System (EIES) located at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

   Umpleby teaches a course in system dynamics modeling. He constructed a system
   dynamics model of national development for the US Agency for International
   Development, and he was an instructor for several years in the AID Development
   Studies Program.

   Since 1981 he has been arranging scientific meetings involving American and
   Russian scientists in the area of cybernetics and systems theory. In 1984 he
   spent part of a sabbatical year at the International Institute for Applied
   Systems Analysis, an East-West research institute located near Vienna, Austria.
   In the spring of 1990 he was a guest professor at the University of Vienna,
   [externallink.GIF] [3]of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence.

   He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics.

Some Recent Papers

     * [externallink.GIF] [4]The Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems
     * [externallink.GIF] [5]The Science of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of
       Science
     * [externallink.GIF] [6]Strategies for Winning Acceptance of Second Order
       Cybernetics
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