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The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is an American non-profit scholastic organization for the advancement of cybernetics as a science and the interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis of cybernetics. The society contributes to the cooperation around the research and development of cybernetics methods and techniques to manage complex systems.〔(ASC CONSTITUTION ). Retrieved 8 June 2008.〕 In order to do so it holds conferences and seminars, and maintains contacts with cyberneticians and organizations for cybernetics in other countries. Further activities of the ASC are: * ASC Glossary on Cybernetics and Systems Theory〔(ASC Glossary ). Retrieved 8 June 2008.〕 * Disciplinary Matrices in Cybernetics and Systems Science〔(Disciplinary Matrices in Cybernetics and Systems Science ). Retrieved 8 June 2008.〕 * Wiener and McCulloch awards The American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964 in Washington, DC to encourage new developments in cybernetics as an interdisciplinary field with Warren McCulloch as first elected president of the ASC.〔(HISTORY OF THE ASC ). Retrieved 8 June 2008.〕 In the 1980s ASC became a member of the International Federation for Systems Research, and begin 1990s supported the Principia Cybernetica Project. Since 1995 the home office for the ASC is located at the George Washington University. The ASC has been maintaining an editorial column in the interdisciplinary Cybernetics and Human Knowing Journal since its first issue in 1992. Rodney Donaldson was the first ASC president to write for the column. == Past ASC presidents == * 2014- Michael Lissack * 2009-2014 Ranulph Glanville * 2005-2008 Louis Kauffman * 2002-2004 Allenna Leonard * 1999-2001 Pille Bunnell * 1994-1998 Frank Galuszka * 1992-1993 Rodney Donaldson * 1989-1991 Fred Steier * 1986-1988 Laurence Richards * 1984-1985 Jon Cunnyngham * 1983-1984 Bill Reckmeyer * 1980-1982 Stuart Umpleby * 1978-1979 Barry Clemson * 1976-1977 Mark Ozer * 1975-1976 Herbert Robinson * 1972-1974 Roy Hermann * 1970-1971 Carl Hammer * 1969-1970 Lawrence J. Fogel * 1967-1968 Warren McCulloch * 1964-1966 Paul Henshaw 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Society for Cybernetics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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