Albert Müller; Austria

Albert Müller, born 1959, studied history and German literature and received his PhD from the University of Graz. After 14 years at a social science history research institute he joined the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna in 1998. There he became responsible for the Heinz von Foerster and the Gordon Pask archives and for supporting international research activities. During the last 15 years cybernetics more and more became a focus of his work. He is a co-editor of the book “An unfinished Revolution: Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory”. In 2009 he was elected a trustee of the American Society of Cybernetics. As a general secretary of the Heinz von Foerster Society he acts as a co-organiser of the biennial Heinz von Foerster Congresses since 2003. He is among the editors of the Austrian Journal of Historical Sciences (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften) which regularly is devoted to themes like constructivism, cybernetics, system theory etc.