{"id":1540,"date":"2013-08-03T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2013-08-03T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:14:12","slug":"conference-welcome-and-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Conference Welcome and Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main part of the 2013 ASC conference was opened and participants welcomed on the morning of Tuesday 30-Jul-2013. Prof. Elias Siores, Provost on Campus of the University of Bolton opened the conference. Further welcome addresses were given by Paul Hollins, Director of Bolton university&#8217;s Institute for Educational Cybernetics, Dai Griffith, conference co-organiser and member of the Institute for Educational Cybernetics and Ranulph Glanville, conference co-organizer and president of the American Society for Cybernetics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1546\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elias_siores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1546\" src=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elias_siores.jpg\" alt=\"Elias Siores\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elias_siores.jpg 620w, https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elias_siores-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elias Siores<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1550\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/opening_crowd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1550\" src=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/opening_crowd.jpg\" alt=\"Conference opening\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/opening_crowd.jpg 620w, https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/opening_crowd-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conference opening<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1541\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paul_hollins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1541\" src=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paul_hollins.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Hollins\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paul_hollins.jpg 620w, https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paul_hollins-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Hollins<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1545\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dai_griffith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1545\" src=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dai_griffith.jpg\" alt=\"Dai Griffith\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dai_griffith.jpg 620w, https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dai_griffith-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dai Griffith<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1542\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ranulph_speaking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1542\" src=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ranulph_speaking.jpg\" alt=\"Ranulph Glanville\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ranulph_speaking.jpg 620w, https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ranulph_speaking-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranulph Glanville<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main part of the 2013 ASC conference was opened and participants welcomed on the morning of Tuesday 30-Jul-2013. Prof. Elias Siores, Provost on Campus of the University of Bolton opened the conference. Further welcome addresses were given by Paul Hollins, Director of Bolton university&#8217;s Institute for Educational Cybernetics, Dai Griffith, conference co-organiser and member &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/?p=1540\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}