Dear Readers!
The first month of 1997 proved to be quite exciting for me. I was one of the founding members of the Austrian Society for Computer History and we started immediately to collect artifacts and documents. Which meant that the IFSR Newletter had to wait and thus got delayed. Nevertheless I include a long Calendar of Eventes. Most of the actual text of the call for papers etc. will appear in the next issue, which I promise to be out soon. Sometimes 8 pages are really not enough! But, please, keep on sending me these pieces of information. It is a very simple way for you to get attention in the systems world…
I have opened a new column: Challenging Thoughts – send me also short contributions on new and fascinating ideas. I will provide a forum for them – and we might even get a bit of discussion going. The topic of ‘aura’ has now been taken up by Ernesto Grün. Perhaps there is another ‘Aura’-story around?
Yours sincerely,
Gerhard Chroust
Table of Contents
- Systems Thinking: Can Systems Thinking Engender Ethical Behaviour? Cecilia Tagliaferri…1
- Challenging Thoughts, J. Gall…2
- Another Aura-Story: Aura II: “Aura” and the Corpus Juris, Ernesto Grün…3
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Heinz von Förster with Peter Weibel and Werner –
Jimmy DePauli-Schimanovich in Las Palmas in
November 1996, IFSR Newsletter 1997 Vol 16 No 1 April
Conference Reports: Heinz von Förster honored in Austria…4 - Conference Announcements …4
- News from the Book Market: Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics…6
- News from the IFSR …6
- Calendar of Events …7