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  • This is the public page for the ASC Working Group on ASC and Cybernetics Archives and also a page for a global group on Cybernetics Archives that transcends organizational boundaries.
  • ASC-Cybernetics Web Site Sitemap created December 2023 https://asc-cybernetics.org/sitemap/
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  • If you wish to join the working groups please contact Peter Tuddenham.
  • Archive page on ASC website
    • ASC newsletters 1983, 1985, 1986,… and other unlisted publications (probably the link was made available on some communication to ASC members)
    • There are scattered publications, like

Software for collections

Zotero from Cliff Joslyn

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5284060/bibliography_of_cybernetics/library

Other Archives on Cybernetics or Related to Cybernetics.

Stafford Beer and Metaphorum

Ross Ashby Archive created by grandson Mick Ashby

John Warfield

A project called “A Primer” in 2000 by the International Society for the Systems Sciences

New Books Network Podcasts with Tom Scholte on a variety of Cybernetic related topics

Cybersemiotics

Education and Training on “Cybernetics”

Feedback Video (1960) from IBM

Feedback device invented in 1925 ATT Tech Video

Video Websites

ASC You Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/ascybernetics

Club of Remy YouTube Channel https://www.clubofremy.org/media

Metaphorum YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@metaphorum
Metaphorum 2023 Conference video recordings https://www.coexplorer.org/metaphorum-2023-video/

YouTube Videos listed on a search for “cybernetics” https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cybernetics

Individual Websites

Native American Cybernetics: Indigenous Knowledge Resources in Information Technology by Ron Eglash

Arun Chandra Page of Links on Cybernetics

John Beckford Blog and Page

Paul Pangaro

Randy Whittaker – From Thomas Fischer -I highly recommend to all here the cybernetics tutorial Randy gave in Richmond in 2011:

Randy’s website is a treasure trove of materials in Autopoiesis, Maturana and cybernetics in general. Unfortunately, Randy’s internet hosting plan has expired, but the material is preserved on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230321055727/https://www.enolagaia.com

From Bethany Anderson at University of Illinois Library, University Archives, 146 Library | M/C 522, Urbana, IL 61801

We have archival materials from both the Biological Computer Laboratory and the personal/research papers of cyberneticians at the University of Illinois.

In terms of records from the BCL, we have:

In terms of personal/research papers, we have:

Additionally, we have the papers of Stuart Umpleby, but those mostly document his time as a student here (though also some of his work with ASC): https://archon.library.illinois.edu/archives/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=5151

And, we do have Paul Schroeder’s papers documenting his time as a student at UIUC: https://archon.library.illinois.edu/archives/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=11499

Lastly, I will mention that we had a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize materials mainly from von Foerster’s papers, and also collaborated with MIT, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Library to digitize their related papers. We then tested machine learning and natural language processing tools on the materials. The results of this project are available here: https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/38ec6eb0-18c3-0135-242c-0050569601ca-1

ASC Bookstore Inventory from Pille Bunnell

ASC Bookstore Inventory w Phillip G 2021Download

Last Updated 2 January 2024

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