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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The ten Macy Conferences, held between 1946 and 1953, were the first organised approach to interdisciplinarity, spawning breakthroughs in systems theory and cybernetics.<br /> <br /> The &quot;core group&quot; of scientists participating in all or most of the conferences were: <br /> <br /> *[[Gregory Bateson]], anthropologist <br /> *[[Julian Bigelow]], electro technician <br /> *[[Heinz von Foerster]], biophysicist <br /> *Lawrence K. Frank, social scientist <br /> *Ralph W. Gerard, neuro physiologist <br /> *Molly Harrower, psychologist <br /> *Lawrence Kubie, psychiatrist <br /> *Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist <br /> *Kurt Lewin, psychologist <br /> *[[Warren McCulloch]] (chair), psychiatrist <br /> *[[Margaret Mead]], anthropologist <br /> *[[John von Neumann]], mathematician <br /> *[[Walter Pitts]], mathematician <br /> *[[Arturo Rosenblueth]], physiologist <br /> *Leonard J. Savage, mathematician <br /> *[[Norbert Wiener]], mathematician <br /> <br /> In addition to the core group a number of invited guests participated in the conferences, including information theorist [[Claude Shannon]] and geneticist and biophysicist [[Max Delbrück]]<br /> <br /> The inaugural Macy Conference held in March 1946 was entitled &quot;Feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biological and Social Systems.&quot; At this conference [[Norbert Wiener]] presented an overview of automatic mechanisms for self-regulation and [[Arturo Rosenblueth]] described purposive behavior and teleological mechanisms.<br /> <br /> ==Links==<br /> *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_Conferences<br /> *http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history/MacySummary.htm<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Post-War Cybernetics]]</div>

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