"The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems."

"The Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning is located in the School of Business and Public Management at The George Washington University. The program focuses on the interaction between ideas and society and the design of ideas as a way of transforming organizations and societies."

In July 2000, the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania announced the creation of the Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches (ACASA). Named for Dr. Russell Ackoff, the center operates as a think tank in the vanguard of systems approaches. Its mission is to conduct theoretical and applied research, education and service to industry, government and education, using systems sciences and systems thinking as global knowledge and competency resources.

"The Advanced Design Institute is based on the belief that design is "world" creation, that everyone engages in design all the time and that it is the oldest form of human inquiry giving rise to everything from cosmologies to tools."

Biocybernetics Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, founded in 1966 by Prof. J. J. DiStefano, III (Los Angeles, Ca., USA).

Operating as a small, visiting institution, SFI seeks to catalyze new collaborative, multidisciplinary projects that break down the barriers between the traditional disciplines, to spread its ideas and methodologies to other individuals and encourage the practical applications of its results."

One of the important objectives of the research at the Center is the study of nonequilibrium processes and a fundamental understanding of the irreversible flow of time. The research into irreversible systems is lead by Ilya Prigogine (pictured above), the 1977 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, whose work has been been regarded as the among the most influential on this topic for many decades. Dr. Prigogine's thoughts on the role of time in physics have lead the way for a generation of research into complex systems.

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"The Norbert Wiener Institute is active in over fifty nations worldwide. Since its foundation in 1969, and subsequently as a result of its reorganisation at the New York (1990) and the New Delhi (1993) WOSC Congresses, it has been involved in the researches of over 1000 scientists."

The Institute in Tübingen (Germany) Is Centered on the Acquisition and Processing of Visual Information in the Nervous System.

Cybernetics in Bradford is Centered in Control, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Cybernetics has an Active Research Programme Mapping out Future Developments and Applications of the New Revolution (UK).

Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK.

Working group at the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, directed towards the development and use of instrumentation and techniques for the acquisition and processing of information from both natural and man-made signal sources.

Institute of Cybernetics, Italian National Research Council.

The Department for Biological Cybernetics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, has a research focus on movement control in animals and humans.

GIC, Kyiv, Ukraine. Information on History, Research and Publikations.

Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Research is conducted in two centers: (a) Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making Knowledge Based Systems, Multi-Agent Sytems, Machine Learning, Mobile Robotics and (b) the Center for Machine Perception Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition.

ECN is a multidisciplinary group Working at the Institute of Cybernetics of Italian CNR in the field of Neurosciences. The main topics include: Computer simulation of synaptic transmission; Neural Network; Parallel computation; Immuno-histochemistry of brain.

Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.

Institute of Cybernetics and Biophysics, University of Genoa, Italy.

Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Located at the University of Linz, Austria. Teaching and research resources.

Web Forum for Innovative Approaches in Sciences, Economy and Culture with Emphasis on Cybernetics and Systems Science (Germany).

Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia.

A Research Institute as well as a Granting and Promoting Association for Cybernetics in Science and Education (English - German).

Institute Specialized in Communication Theory and Application, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (München, Bavaria, F. R. Germany).

The Institute for Cybernetics at the University of Paderborn, Germany with Three Divisions for Educational Cybernetics, Language Cybernetics and Educational Informatics.

The unifying theme to the research conducted in this working group at the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, is the study of systems that require 'humans-in-the-loop'.

Cracow, Poland

Working group at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, engaged in the study of intelligence and its application.

Institute for Technical Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway).

Laboratory of Neuro-Cybernetics, Research Group of Biomedical Information Engineering, Division of Systems and Information Engineering, Graduate School, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Working group investigating the organizational principles of bacterial growth and colony formation (Tel Aviv University, Israel).