Publications by Stuart A. Umpleby
Arranged by Topic
The publications are arranged by topic with the most recent ones first.
Some articles are listed under more than one topic.
updated: August, 2001
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Alternative Futures
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Applications of Computers
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Country Development
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Cybernetics and Systems Theory
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Management
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Philosophy of Science
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World Population
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Year 2000 Computer Crisis
1. ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
"Coping
with an Error in a Knowledge Society: The Case of the Year 2000 Computer
Crisis," in George lasker, et al. Advances in Human Systems and
Information Technologies, Windsor, Canada. International Institute
for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 2000.
"Why We Missed the Year 2000 Computer Crisis," Prepared for the
11th International Conference on Systems
Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2-7,1999.
"Clandestine Techniques as Social Technology."Society, September/October
1973, p. 27.
"Information Theory and Consumer Action."Business and Society Review,
Fall 1972, pp. 62-67.
"Is Greater Citizen Participation in Planning Possible and Desirable?"
Technological
Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 1972, pp. 61-76.
"Citizen Feedback: The New Computer Potentials for Strengthening Democracy."
EDUCOM
Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1972, pp. 11-15.
"Citizen Sampling Simulations: A Method for Involving the Public in
Social Planning." Policy Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1970, pp.
361-375. Also published in German.
With John Briggs. "Exploring the Future with a Computer." The Futurist,
December 1970, pp. 197-199. Also published in Ekistics, August 1972,
pp. 93-96.
"The Illinois Delphi Exploration of Alternative Futures." The Journal
of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1970, pp. 129-133, Special
Issue: The Future and Aesthetic Education.
With Charles E. Osgood. "A Computer-based Exploration of Alternative
Futures for Mankind 2000." In Robert Jungk and Johan Galtung (eds.).
Mankind 2000 . Oslo: Norwegian Universities Press, 1969, pp. 346-359.
Also published in German and Korean.
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2. APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS
"Coping with an Error in a Knowledge Society: The Case of the Year
2000 Computer Crisis," in George lasker, et al. Advances in Human Systems
and Information Technologies, Windsor, Canada. International Institute
for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 2000.
With Pavel Makeyenko. "International
Cooperation in Teaching Management Courses: Using Email to Link student
Group Projects in Two Countries," Research Program in Social and Organizational
Learning, George Washington University, October 25, 1995.
With Ji-Xuan Hu, "Computer Conferencing in China." Telecommunications
Policy, March 1989, p. 69.
With R.F. Dyer and V.X. Rodriguez, "Electronic Information Exchange
on General Systems Theory: Final Report," (in three parts: Final Report,
Appendices, and Quarterly Reports), School of Business and Public Management,
The George Washington University, 1987.
"Group Process Guidelines for Computer Conferencing: Reply to RAND Summary."
Netweaver,
The On-Line Publication of the Electronic Networking Association, Vol.
2, No. 9, September 1986.
"The International
Network of Systems Theorists." Netweaver, The On-Line Publication
of the Electronic Networking Association, Vol. 2, No. 2, February 1986.
"Desirable Features for Future Computer Conferencing Systems." Netweaver,
The On-Line Publication of the Electronic Networking Association, Vol.
2, No. 1, January 1986.
"On-Line Educational
Techniques."Netweaver, The On-Line Publication of the Electronic
Networking Association, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1986.
With K.S. Thomas. "Applying Systems Theory to the Conduct of Systems
Research." In Anthony Debons (ed.).Information Science in Action: System
Design. Vol. l, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983, pp. 381-395.
"Computer Conference on General Systems Theory: One Year's Experience."
In Madeline M. Henderson and Marcia J. MacNaughton (eds.). Electronic
Communication: Technology and Impacts. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1979, pp. 55-63.
"The Teaching Computer as a Gaming Laboratory." Simulation and Games,
March 1971, pp. 5-25.
"Structuring Information for a Computer-based Communications Medium."
Proceedings of the 1971 Fall Joint Computer Conference. Las Vegas,
Nevada, pp. 337-350.
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3. COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT
With Irina Naoumova, "Two
Methods Useful For Starting A Quality Improvement Program," Research
Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
January 2002.
"Creating
and Sustaining A Quality Improvement Effort in a University," Research
Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
January 2002.
"On Creating a Great University," General Systems Bulletin, Volume
30, January 2001, pp. 23-24.
With Irina Naoumova, "A workshop on Quality Improvement Methods for
2000-2001. Visiting Scholars at GW," Research Program in Social and Organizational
Learning, The George Washington University, January 2001.
"Systems Approaches to Management," Research Program in Social and Organizational
Learning. The George Washington University, January 2001.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°Improving Education and Practice:
Abstracts Prepared by 2000-2001 Visiting Professors.¡± Research Program
in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 17 pages.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°Research, Learning and Sharing:
Abstracts Prepared by 1999-2000 Visiting Professors.¡± Research Program
in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 12 pages.
With Oleksandr Melnychenko. ¡°Department
of Management Science Quality Improvement Priority Matrix,¡± Research
Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
May 2001.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°Developing business-Related Institutions:
Abstracts Prepared by 1994-1995 Visiting Professors.¡± Research Program
in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 14 pages.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°Quality Improvement in Higher Education:
Abstracts Prepared During the 1995-1996 Academic Year.¡± Research
Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 5 pages.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°Facilitating Educational Reform:
Abstracts Prepared by 1996-1997 Visiting Professors.¡± Research Program
in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 12 pages.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°Underlying Assumptions in Academic Fields:
Abstracts Prepared During the 1997-1998 Academic Year.¡± Research
Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 8 pages.
Stuart A. Umpleby (ed.). ¡°New Opportunities for Research and Cooperation:
Abstracts Prepared by 1998-1999 Visiting Professors.¡± Research Program
in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University,
September 11, 2001, 7 pages.
With Vladimir Pozdniakov. "A
Y2K Point of View on Economic and Cultural Developments in the US and Russia,"
in Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems 2000, Austrian Society
for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna, Austria, 2000, pp. 454-458.
With Tatyana Medvedeva, "The
Problem of Social Labor Relations and Management: A Methodological Aspect,"
in Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems 2000, Austrian Society
for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna, Austria, 2000, pp. 400-405."
With Vera Gouchtchina. "Will Russia Become an Industrial or a Post-Industrial
Society?" Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '98, Vienna,
Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1998, pp. 454-457. Also
published in Russian as "Stanet Li Rossiya Industrialnym ili Postindustrialnym
Obshchestvom?" Kontinent, Vol.98, no 1,1999, pp.35-45.
With Vera Gouchtchina. "Identifying the Russian Cultural Constitution."
Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '98, Vienna, Austria:
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1998, pp. 448-453.
With Tatyana Medvedeva. "Societal Self-Awareness as an Aid to Societal
Development." Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '98, Vienna,
Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1998, pp. 470-474.
With Pavel Makeyenko. "A Comparison of the Stability of the Socio-Economic
Systems of the United States and Russia, "Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics
and Systems '96, Vienna, Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies,
1996.
With Pavel Makeyenko. "Factors Tending to Produce Stability or Instability
in Socio-Economic Systems, "Seventh International Conference of the Society
for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Washington, DC, April 7-9, 1995.
With Pavel Makeyenko. "Cultural and Historical Factors Leading to Stability
or Instability in Social Systems," Research Program in Social and Organizational
Learning, The George Washington University, October 9, 1995.
With Pavel Makeyenko. "International Cooperation in Teaching Management
Courses: Using Email to Link Student Group Projects in two Countries,"
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington
University, October 25, 1995.
"Psychological Adjustment in Russia Following the Collapse of the Soviet
Union," presented at a conference on Psychoanalysis and Post-Colonialism
at The George Washington University, October 12-14, 1995.
With Paul Ballonoff (eds.). Cybernetics of Country Development, a special
issue of Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 6, 1991.
With Paul Ballonoff, Preface to a special issue on the Cybernetics of
Country Development, in Stuart Umpleby and Paul Ballonoff (eds.). Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 6, 1991.
"What is to be Done: Learning Democracy while Improving Organizations."
Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 6, 1994, pp. 827-836. An earlier version
of this article appeared in Robert Trappl (ed.). Cybernetics and Systems
'92, Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research, Vienna, Austria, April 21-24, 1992.
With Robert Trappl (eds.). Cybernetics of National Development. A special
issue of Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1991.
With Robert Trappl, Preface to a special issue on the Cybernetics of
National Development, in Stuart Umpleby and Robert Trappl (eds.). Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1991, pp. 389-410.
"A Preliminary Inventory of Theories Available to Guide the Reform of
Socialist Societies." In Stuart Umpleby and Robert Trappl (eds.). Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1991, pp. 389-410. An excerpt of this
article appeared as "Negotiating Procedures and Underlying Ethical Convictions
in the Soviet Union and the USA," in the IFSR Newsletter, International
Federation for Systems Research, No. 28, 1991, pp. 1-3.
"Comparing
Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values as well as Institutions."
In Stuart A. Umpleby and Robert Trappl (eds.). Cybernetics and System,
Vol. 22, No. 4, 1991, pp. 515-529. An earlier version of this article appeared
in Robert Trappl (ed.). Cybernetics and Systems '90, Proceedings
of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria,
April 17-20, 1990.
"The Acceptance of Social Science," The GW Magazine, Summer 1991,
p. 32.
"Kompromisse und Konfrontation: Ueber russische und amerikanische Gepflogenheiten
beim Verhandeln." (Compromise and Confrontation: Concerning Russian and
American Habits in Negotiating), Der Standard (Austrian daily newspaper),
Wednesday, 31 July 1991, p. 23.
"The Language of Negotiating: East and West." GW Forum, Vol.
39, Spring 1991, pp. 6-8.
"Das moralische Dilemma der Sowjetburger." (The Moral Dilemma of Soviet
Citizens), Der Standard (Austrian daily newspaper), Monday, 18 June
1990, p. 23.
With Vadim N. Sadovsky (eds.). A Science of Goal Formulation: American
and Soviet Discussions of Cybernetics and Systems Theory. New York:
Hemisphere Publishing Co., 1991.
"Conceptual Difficulties Involved in Relations between the United States
and the USSR." In Stuart A. Umpleby and Vadim N. Sadovsky (eds.). A
Science of Goal Formulation: American and Soviet Discussions of Cybernetics
and Systems Theory. New York: Hemisphere Publishing Co., 1991, pp.
49-62.
"Methods
for Community Development: The Work of the Institute of Cultural Affairs."
Prepared for the Program on Support, Society, and Culture, University of
Amsterdam, January 30, 1989.
"American and Soviet Discussions of the Foundations of Cybernetics and
General Systems Theory." Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 18, 1987,
pp. 177-193. Reprinted in General Systems, Vol. 31, 1988, pp. 71-76.
"System Therapy: The Case of South Africa." Embark, Newsletter
of the School of Business, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa, October, 1985.
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4. CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS THEORY
¡°What Comes after Second Order Cybernetics?¡± Cybernetics and Human
Knowing, Volume 8, No. 3, 2001, pp. 87-89.
"Some Implications
of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis for Academic Disciplines," in Robert
Trappl (ed). Cybernetics and Systems 2000. Vienna: Austrian
Society for Cybernetic Studies, 200, pp. 471.475.
""Cyberethics" : A Panel Discussion."" Cybernetics and Systems, Vol.
30, No. 4, 1999, pp. 315-330.
With Eric Dent, "The
Origins and Purposes of Several Traditions in Systems
Theory and Cybernetics,"
Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1999, pp. 79-103. Also
published in Japanese in Akira Ishikawa (ed.) Cybernetics Renaissance,
Tokyo, Japan, 1999.
With Mario Veitl (eds.). Papers from the 1997 Meeting of the American
Society for Cybernetics (Parts I and II). Cybernetics and Systems,
Vol. 30, Nos. 2 and 4, 1999.
With Eric Dent. "Underlying Assumptions of Several Traditions in Systems
Science." Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '98, Vienna,
Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1998, pp. 513-518.
"Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems." Cybernetics and Systems,
Vol. 28, No. 8, 1997, pp. 635-652. Also published in German as "Zur Kybernetik
von Konzeptuellen Systemen," in Renate Martinsen (ed.), Das Auge
der Wissenschaft: Zur Emergenz von Realitaet (The Eye of Science: On
Emergence from Reality). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995.
"Four Models from Cybernetics to Guide our Understanding of Cyberspace,"
in Robert Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems '96. Vienna: Austrian
Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1996.
"Two Kinds of General Theories in Systems Science," In Robert Trappl
(ed.). Cybernetics and Systems '94. Volume II, Proceedings of the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria,
April 5-8, 1994.
"Limericks about Cybernetics." Cybernetics and Systems, Vol.
23, No. 2, 1992, pp. 229-239.
"Mindwalk." (A movie review), Systems Practice, Vol. 5, No. 3,
1992, pp. 343-346.
"Strategies for Winning Acceptance of Second Order Cybernetics." In
George E. Lasker. Tetsuuori Koizumi and Jens Pohl(eds.) Advances in
Human Systems and Information Technologies, Windsor, Canada: International
Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics,
1992, pp. 97-106.
"Comparing Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values as well
as Institutions." In Stuart A. Umpleby and Robert Trappl (eds.). Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1991, pp. 515-529. An earlier version
of this article appeared in Robert Trappl (ed.). Cybernetics and Systems
'90, Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research, Vienna, Austria, April 17-20, 1990.
"The Science of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Science." Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1990, pp. 109-121.
"Strategies for Regulating the Global Economy." Futures, December
1989, pp. 585-592. Reprinted in Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 21,
No. 1, 1990, pp. 99-108.
"Applying Second Order Cybernetics: Balancing Consistency and Completeness."
Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Cybernetics, November 8-9, 1989.
"Cybernetics and Systems Theory in the United States and the Soviet
Union." ASC Newsletter, American Society for Cybernetics, November
1989, pp. 6-7.
"Three Conceptions of Conversation" Continuing the Conversation:
A Newsletter of Ideas in Cybernetics, No. 10, Fall 1987, pp. 17-18.
"Self-Authorization: A Characteristic of Certain Elements in Some Self-Organizing
Systems." Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1986, pp. 79-88.
"Linear and Elitist: How Our Critics See Us." Cybernetics Forum,
Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 1979.
"Heinz Von Foerster: A Second Order Cybernetician." Cybernetics Forum,
Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1979, pp. 3-12.
With Vadim N. Sadovsky (eds.). A Science of Goal Formulation: American
and Soviet Discussions of Cybernetics and Systems Theory. New York:
Hemisphere Publishing Co., 1991.
"American and Soviet Discussions of the Foundations of Cybernetics and
General Systems Theory." Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 18, 1987,
pp. 177-193. Reprinted in General Systems, Vol. 31, 1988, pp. 71-76.
"Some Implications of Cybernetics for Theories of Social Systems." In
George E. Lasker (ed.). Applied Systems and Cybernetics. Volume
II, New York: Pergamon Press, 1981, pp. 575-578.
"Systems, Observers and Groups." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
of the Society for General Systems Research. Toronto, Canada, January
6-9, 1981, pp. 406-409.
"Second Order Cybernetics and the Design of Large Scale Social Experiments."
Proceedings
of the 1976 Conference of theSociety for General Systems Research.
Boston, MA, February 18-21, 1976, pp. 69-75.
Some Applications of Cybernetics to Social Systems. (PhD Dissertation),
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1975.
"Social Indicators from Cybernetics." Proceedings of the 1974 International
Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Society, Dallas, Texas, October 2-4, 1974, pp. 259-266.
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5. MANAGEMENT
"On Creating a Great University," General Systems Bulletin, Volume
30, January 2001, pp. 23-24.
With Irina Naoumova, "A workshop on Quality Improvement Methods for
2000-2001. Visiting Scholars at GW," Research Program in Social and Organizational
Learning, The George Washington University, January 2001.
"Systems Approaches to Management," Research Program in Social and Organizational
Learning. The George Washington University, January 2001.
¡°System Approach to Management,¡± in Boris Milner and Francis Lees (ed.)
Management of the Modern Company. (Textbook in Russian), Moscow:
INFRA-M, 2001, pp. 298-305.
"Implications of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis for International Business,"
Eighth Annual World Business Congress, International Management Development
Association, Monterey, CA, July 1-3, 1999.
"What You Will Need for the Recovery Period," Year 2000 Conference and
Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, November 1998.
With Peggy Lee, "Customer Service and the Year 2000 Computer Crisis,"
in Johnson Edosomwon (ed.) Proceedings of the 1998 Customer Service Congress.
"How People in Washington Are responding to Y2K," Prepared for the Newsletter
of Citizens for Y2K Recovery, October, 1998.
"A National Action Plan for Y2K Recovery," in Alain Wouters, Phillippe
Vandenbroeck and Douglass Carmichael (eds.) The Millennium Bug - The
Year 2000 Computer Problem: Structure, Denial, Actions. Brussels, Belgium:
Acco, 1998.
"Foreign Policy Implications of the Year 2000 Computer Problem," A Presentation
at The George Washington University, May 5, 1998.
"Will Universities Continue to Operate in January 2000?" On the Horizon.
Vol. 6, No. 3, May/June 1998, pp. 13-14.
"Establishing Customer Satisfaction as a Goal in Higher Education,"
First World Customer Service Congress Tyson's Corner, VA, October 29-31,
1997
With Vladimir Rapoport, Valeria Ryssina, and William E. Halal. "Managerial
Personnel in the Commonwealth of Independent States." In Richard B. Peterson
(ed.), Managers and National Culture: A Global Perspective, Westport,
CT: Quorum Books, 1993, pp. 156-177.
"What is to be Done: Learning Democracy while Improving Organizations."
Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 6, 1994, pp. 827-836. An earlier version
of this article appeared in Robert Trappl (ed.). Cybernetics and Systems
'92, Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research, Vienna, Austria, April 21-24, 1992.
"Comparing Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values as well
as Institutions." In Stuart A. Umpleby and Robert Trappl (eds.). Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1991, pp. 515-529. An earlier version
of this article appeared in Robert Trappl (ed.). Cybernetics and Systems
'90, Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research, Vienna, Austria, April 17-20, 1990.
"Strategies for Regulating the Global Economy." Futures, December
1989, pp. 585-592. Reprinted in Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 21,
No. 1, 1990, pp. 99-108.
"Methods for Making Organizations Adaptive." In Robert Trappl (ed.).
Power,
Autonomy, Utopia: New Approaches toward Complex Systems. Plenum Publishing,
1986, pp. 133-138. Also published in Gerard de Zeeuw and Ranulph Glanville
(eds.). Collective Support Systems and their Users. Amsterdam: Thesis
Publishers, 1991, pp. 155-162.
"Methods
for Community Development: The Work of the Institute of Cultural Affairs."
Prepared for the Program on Support, Society, and Culture, University of
Amsterdam, January 30, 1989.
"A Group Process Approach to Organizational Change." In Horst Wedde
(ed.). Adequate Modeling of Systems. Springer-Verlag, 1983, pp.
116-128.
"The 1980 Planning Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics."
Cybernetics
Forum, Vol. 10, No.1, Spring 1981.
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6. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
"How Should Knowledge in the Management Sciences be Organized?" (in press)
With John A. Buck and Eric B. Dent, "Communicating Science: the Difficulty
Introduced by the Historical Politics of the English Language," Science
Communication, Vol. 22, No. 1, September 2000, 73-87.
"Coping With an Error
in a Knowledge Society: The Case of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis"
Prepared for the Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics
Baden-Baden, Germany, July 31-August 4, 2000
With Eric Dent. "Underlying Assumptions of Several Traditions in Systems
Science." Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '98, Vienna,
Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1998, pp. 513-518.
"Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems." Cybernetics and Systems,
28/8: 635-652, 1997. Also published in German as "Zur Kybernetik von Konzeptuellen
Systemen," in Renate Martinsen (ed.), Das Auge der Wissenschaft:
Zur Emergenz von Realitaet (The Eye of Science: On Emergence from Reality).
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995.
"Four Models from Cybernetics to Guide our Understanding of Cyberspace,"
in Robert Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems '96. Vienna: Austrian
Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1996.
"Two Kinds of General Theories in Systems Science," In Robert Trappl
(ed.). Cybernetics and Systems '94. Volume II, Proceedings of the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria,
April 5-8, 1994.
"Strategies for Winning Acceptance of Second Order Cybernetics." In
George E. Lasker (ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. Baden-Baden, Germany,
August 12-18, 1991.
"The Science of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Science." Cybernetics
and Systems, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1990, pp. 109-121.
"On Making a Scientific Revolution." In Heinz von Foerster, et al.
(eds.). Cybernetics of Cybernetics. Minneapolis, MN: Future Systems,
Inc. 1995.
With Tatyana Medvedeva, ¡°Psychological
Adjustment to Economic and Social Change,¡± Reflexive Control.
(in Russian, in press)
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7. WORLD POPULATION
"The Scientific Revolution in Demography."Population and Environment,
Spring 1990, pp. 159-174. Reprinted in Polish in Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa,
2(106), 1991, pp. 295-307.
"World Population: Still Ahead of Schedule." Science, Vol. 237,
No. 4822, 25 September 1987, pp. 1555-1556.
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8. YEAR 2000 COMPUTER CRISIS
¡°Why the Century Date Change Occurred so Smoothly,¡± in Gillian Ragsdell
and Jennifer Wilby (eds.). Understanding Complexity, New York:
Plenum Publishing, 2001, pp. 183-189.
"Y2K Revisited: Why the Sky Didn't Fall," Centerpiece, School
of Business and Public Management, The George Washington University, Fall
2000, pp. 32-35.
"Coping with and Error in Knowledge Society: The Case of the Year
2000 Computer Crisis," By George! September 5, 2000, pp. 2 and 11.
"Why the Century
Date Change Went So Smoothly," 16th Annual Washington
Consortium of Business Schools, Faculty Research Forum, Gallaudet University,
April 22, 2000.
With Vladimir Pozdniakov. "A Y2K Point of View on Economic and Cultural
Developments in the US and Russia," in Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics
and Systems 2000, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. Vienna,
Austria, 2000, pp. 454-458.
"Some Implications of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis for Academic Disciplines,"
in Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '2000, Austrian Society
for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna, Austria 2000, pp. 471-475.
"Y2K: Opportunities for Research," A Research Report to the Faculty
of the School of Business and Public Management, The George Washington
University, December 3, 1999.
"Eine
kurze Geschichte des Jahr 2000-Problems," (A short history of the year
2000 problem), translated into German by Karl Mueller, Oesterreichische
Zeitschrift fuer Geschichtswissenschaften (Austrian History Journal),
December 1999, pp.371-401.
"Implications of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis for the International
Community," Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International
Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, September 25-28, 1999.
With Ranulph Glanville, Bob Barbour, and Michael Schreiber, "A
(Cybernetic) Musing: The Millennium Bug," Cybernetics and Human
Knowing, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1999, pp. 71-85.
With Ginger Smith and Alex Kobina Armoo, "The Year 2000 Computer Crisis:
How the Tourism Industry May be Affected and How it can Help," Tourism
Analysis, Vol. 4, 1999, pp. 105-112.
"Why We Missed the Year 2000 Computer Crisis," Presented at the11th
International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics,
Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2-7,1999.
"Y2K: An 'Autopsy' of Modern Society?" Science, Vol. 284,21 May
1999, pp. 1273.
"The Year 2000 Computer Crisis," An interview conducted by Yagmur Denizhan,
Industry
and Automation (in Turkish), August 1999.
"Schlaf der Ahnunglosen" (Sleep of the Uninformed), An interview conducted
by Nicole Immler, Kleine Zeitung (Austrian Daily Newspaper), 20
June, 1999, p. 19.
"Implications of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis for International
Business," Annual Conference of the International Management Development
Association, Monterey, CA, July 1-3, 1999.
"How the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Might Reenergize Systems Science,"
Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Asilomar,
CA, June 27-July 2, 1999.
"Participation in Organizations and Communities Stimulated by the Year
2000 Computer Crisis," International Conference on Problems of Participation
and Connection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Apri15-9, 1999.
With Peggy Lee, "Customer Service and the Year 2000 Computer Crisis,"
Second World Customer Service Congress, Tysons Corner, VA, October 13-14,1998.
"What You Will Need for the Recovery Period: Plans, Equipment, Skills,"
Prepared for the Year 2000 Conference and Exposition, Philadelphia, PA,
November 1998.
"How People in Washington Are Responding to Y2K," Prepared for theNewsletter
of Citizens for Y2K Recovery," October, 1998.
"A National Action Plan for Y2K Recovery," in Alain Wouters, Philippe
Vanderbroeck and Douglass Carmichael (eds.) The Millennium Bug-
The Year 2000 Computer Problem: Structure, Denial, Actions.
Leuven, Belgium: Acco, 1998, pp. 145-150.
With Karl Mueller, "Y2K ist das erste schwerwiegende Problem der
lnformationsgesellschaft: Hoffen, dass nichts passiert, ist zuwenig" (Y2K
is the first really serious problem of the information society: Hoping
that nothing happens is not enough), Der Standard (Austrian Daily
Newspaper), 24 September 1998, p. A 11.
"Foreign Policy Implications of the Year 2000 Computer Problem," A Presentation
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