Dear Readers!
The key topic of this Newsletter is the preparations of the next Fuschl Conversation taking place from April 7 to 12, 2002 in Fuschl, Austria – a major event in IFSR’s activities. considerable information concerning the Fuschl Conversation 2000 can be found on the Fuschl home page. A similar way for information exchange is planned for the Fuschl 2002 conference.
With respect to IFSR activities you will find a report on the past Executive Committee Meeting in Monterey in July 2001, an updated list of IFSR members and reports from some of our members. We also give a preview of the next Board Meeting of the IFSR on April 3, 2002 in Vienna, announcing the elections of the new Executive Committee. The Newsletter also contains reports and announcements of several conferences, which are closely linked to members of the IFSR.
Gerhard Chroust
Table of Contents
- Fuschl Conversation 2002 (April 7 – 12, 2002) …2
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Fuschl – 20 Years history…2 - What is Fuschl and the Hotel Seewinkel? …2
- Why conversation and what form do they take?…2
- Steps in the Fuschl Conversation…3
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- Call for Participation in the Eleventh Fuschl Conversation…4
- Team 1: New Agoras for the 21st Century: Conscious Self-Guided Evolution …4
- Team 2: Designing Systems for Human Betterment …4
- Team 3: Foundations of Information Science …5
- Team 4: Social Awareness …5
- Team 5: Actions and Evolutionary Guidance for Y3K …6
- Rules for the Fuschl Conversations …6
- Fuschl Web-Site …6
- 100th Anniversary of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Birthday, J.L. Elohim…7
- Journals …8
- 45th ISSS Conference Systems Science in Service to Humanity …8
- 45th Annual Meeting of the ISSS’2001 Distributed Site Sofia …9
- IFSR Scholarships for EMCSR 2002 …10
- EMCSR 2002 – Ross Ashby Memorial Lecture …11
- Meeting of the IFSR Executive Committee …11
- Next IFSR Board Meeting: April 3, 2002 …12
- IFSR’s Web Site : http://www.ifsr.org …12
- Project: Systems East and West, Zhichang Zhu…12
- Upcoming Conferences …13
- 2002 ISSS Annual Meeting and Conference …13
- Members of the IFSR …14