Summaries of addresses presented at the opening ceremony of the 13th WOSC Congress 2005

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(2006), "Summaries of addresses presented at the opening ceremony of the 13th WOSC Congress 2005", Kybernetes, Vol. 35 No. 1/2. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2006.06735aab.002

Summaries of addresses presented at the opening ceremony of the 13th WOSC Congress 2005

Summaries of addresses presented at the opening ceremony of the 13th WOSC Congress 2005

Presidential Welcome – Professor Robert Vallée

I must begin with two messages from Professor J. Rose, Founder and Honorary Director of WOSC and from Dr Alex Andrew, the Director General of WOSC, who have been unable to attend (these messages are published in full on the following pages).

I have little to add to these messages. I think nevertheless that a list of the cities where the congresses of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (also known as “Organisation Mondiale Pour La Systémique et la Cybernétique”) may be of interest. They were: London (1969), Oxford, Bucharest, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Paris, London, New York, New Delhi, Bucharest, Uxbridge, (West London), Pittsburgh. The official language has generally been English, but also French for Paris and French and Rumanian for Bucharest. I must say, also, that WOSC has instituted an Honorary Fellowship with 29 living recipients and that our Honorary President in memoriam is Norbert Wiener.

Professor Brian Rudall, the vice-president of WOSC will give you information about Kybernetes, the official journal of WOSC, and also about the Norbert Wiener Institute of WOSC which he founded and of which he is the Director.

I wish the greatest success to the 13th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, and particularly to the Sociocybernetics group under the presidency of Professor Bernard Hornung.

I thank very much Professor Matjaz Mulej and the Local Organising Committee for their important work, also the University of Maribor, the Faculty of Economics and Business, the Institute of Entrepeurship, the Slovenian Systems Research Society.

A special mention is due to UNESCO and the Encyclepedia of Life Support Systems for their moral and material help.

Thank you.