Magnus Ramage

Lecturer in Information Systems, Department of Computing & Communications, The Open University, UK

Email: magnus.ramage@open.ac.uk
Website: http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct-cc/people/magnus.ramage

Biographical Info: Magnus Ramage is a lecturer in information systems at The Open University, UK. His research interests are in the nature of information as it appears in many different disciplines; and in the history of cybernetics and systems. Since mid-2012, he has been editor-in-chief of the long-running journal Kybernetes. He is co-author of the book Systems Thinkers (Springer, 2009), which describes the lives and ideas of thirty key thinkers in cybernetics and systems. He has written distance-learning course materials, and chaired courses teams, in sociotechnical systems design, the evolution of information systems, and various aspects of systems thinking. He has a PhD in information systems from Lancaster University, UK.