Citation
(1999), "The Cybernetics Society", Kybernetes, Vol. 28 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.1999.06728bab.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
The Cybernetics Society
The Cybernetics Society
Thirty years' anniversary meeting and essay prize
The chairman of the Cybernetics Society, Dr Brian Warburton, writes:
Next year will be a very momentous and exciting time for the Cybernetics Society. We will be celebrating our 30th anniversary. Since June 1998 our Web-page and press releases have proudly announced our £1,000 essay prize to be awarded at our special anniversary meeting in Oxford.
Our regular annual conference will be transformed and will become a residential meeting at Trinity College, Oxford. It is one of the smaller Oxford Colleges where it is possible even in the modern age for every undergraduate to know every other one despite the boundaries of faculty. Please make a note of the dates: Monday, 20 and Tuesday, 21 September 1999.
The intention is to invite one or two key note speakers, devote one day to the physical and mathematical cybernetics and devote the other day to the cybernetics of the humanities and biology. The registration fees will be about £120-150 inclusive of registration, residence and meals. On the Monday evening we will be holding a banquet and if a candidate or candidates of sufficient worth has or have emerged in the essay prize competition, a presentation will be made on this occasion.
A call for papers will be going out very soon now and it is hoped that some of the founder members of The Cybernetics Society will be able to take part. This meeting will be quite competitive and is already attracting a lot of international interest.
Cybernetics Society Meetings
The following meetings were scheduled for the society's programme:
The Design of a Robotics Controller Marcello Cauchi-Savona, Department of Mechanical Engineering, King's College London. (Mr Cauchi-Savona is one of the two Cybernetics Society King's College Prize Winners for 1997-1998.)
General Introduction to Memetics in Sociology Paul Marsden, Department of Sociology, University of Sussex, Falmer.
The Cybernetics of Educational Systems Dr Bernard Scott, Centre for Educational Technology and Development, De Montfort University, Leicester.
Artificial Evolution Alastair Channon, Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
Updated information about the programme is given on the Website: http://members.aol.com/BrWarburto/cyberneticsoc/cybersoc2.htm
The usual venue is at Room 11A at King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. UK readers should note that some of these meetings may have been held or cancelled at the time of publication; please contact the Society for the latest details.