Ranulph Glanville died on December 20th 2014.

Here is an obituary on the website of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, written by Michael Lissack.

Ernst died 12 November 2010, at 7am US east coast time.

Here is an obituary on the Constructivist Psychology Network.

Another obituary by AP in the Washington Post.

• President: Michael Lissack
• Vice-President: Timothy Jachna
• Secretary: Robert Martin
• Treasurer: Arthur Collings
• Vice President (Membership): Christiane (Candy) Herr
• Vice President (Electronic Publications): Thomas Fischer

These new officers were due to effective 1 January 2015, but were installed effective early on December 20th, following the death of sitting ASC President Ranulph Glanville (which also leaves the post of Past President vacant). Incoming President Michel Lissack is vacating his post as Trustee. You can review summary information on your ASC officers at:

• Vice-President: Timothy Jachna
• Treasurer: Sylvia Rabeler
• VP for Electronic Publications: Christiane (Candy) Herr
• Ombudsperson: Gary Boyd
• Ombudsperson: David Cox

These new officers were installed effective 1 November 2010. You can review summary information on your ASC officers at:

You can review the current ASC by-laws at:

The conference title was Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation (C:ADM2010)

You can review 2010 Conference information on the 2010 Conference webpages at:

http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/bylaws_consultation_2009/

Barbara retired as Patterns editor after completion of the Winter 2008 edition.

We regret to announce that Barbara passed away June 8, 2009.

To download the members letter (in PDF format) CLICK HERE.

The 2009 meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics was held on March 12-15, 2009, in Olympia, Washington. The conference title was "Cybernetics Talk Dance Anticommunication".

For more information, please go to the ASC 2009 Conference legacy webpage:

To download the members letter (in PDF format) CLICK HERE..

2008 saw the 50th anniversary of the founding, by Heinz von Foerster, of the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana / Champaign. The BCL a cauldron of cybernetics and the home of second order cybernetics, featured a star studded cast of membes and visitors. Heinz was also one of the founders of the ASC, which has provided a spiritual home for second order cybernetics since its origination.

Our conference celebrated this remarkable laboratory in joint festival with the Department of Electrical Engineering at UIUC, which was the umbrella under which the BCL sheltered. This activity was organized to coincide with the 8th Understanding Complex Systems (UCS) Symposium (12 - 15 May) on the topic Informatics, Energy and Others.

For more information, please go to the ASC 2008 Conference legacy webpage:

Constructivism, Design, Cybernetics: Radical, Social, 2nd-Order
Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana IL
March 29 - April 1, 2007

For more information on the upcoming 2007 conference, visit the ASC 2007 Conference webpage..