Robert Martin

Email: rmartin@truman.edu

Biographical Info: Robert J. Martin is a composer, licensed psychologist, and Professor Emeritus at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. He completed a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing an interdisciplinary thesis under Heinz von Foerster and Herbert Brun. He has published two books with Prentice-Hall, the first on teaching, the second on communication skills. For many years he maintained a private practice as psychotherapist, working with children, adults, and families, schools, and prison. A long-term member of the American Society of Cybernetics, he served on the ASC Executive Committee for two terms and is on the International Advisory Board for this conference. Since retiring from teaching in 2013, he has turned his attention to composition and recently completed a cycle of string solos, duets, and quartets on the topic of wind energy and wind machines.