Study Group of Systems and Cybernetics-GESI
Background
Cybernetics was introduced
in Argentina as early as
1959 by Dr. Maximo Valentinuzzi, an Argentine biologist who had worked with
Anatol Rapoport in the U.S.
He created the Institute
of Cybernetics within the
frame of the Argentine Scientific Society, which unfortunately disappeared when
he passed away in 1983.
In turn, Systemics was
introduced at the Catholic University of La Plata, Buenos
Aires (1973) and at the Argentine Scientific Society
(1976) with lectures given by Prof. Charles François
These lectures concited
great interest and led to the creation of the Study Group of Systems and
Cybernetics (Grupo de Estudio de Sistemas y Cibernética) GESI, in October 1976.
It became, later on, the Argentine Society for Systems and Cybernetics,
recognized as the Argentine branch of the International Society for Systems
Sciences (ISSS) (1984) as well as a member of the International Federation for
Systems Research (IFSR), University of
Linz, Austria
(1984).
From its beginnings, GESI's
members actively started the diffusion of Systemics and Cybernetics, in the
following ways:
- Publication of series of booklets and
pamphlets, either translations of foreign texts, or original works.
- Organization of lectures and tutorials
within the Association, and in universities, public and private
administrations, hospitals, enterprises, etc.
- Organization of seminars on a variety of
specific subjects or situations considered from an integrative systemic
viewpoint.
- Special groups for the study of different
subjects related to Systemics:lexicographic
information; thermodynamics of irreversible systems; general problems of
model construction; applications of GST to business management;
psycho-cybernetics of social communication; study of the cybernetics of
law; cybernetic and systemic processes in history; methodology of
prospective from a cybernetic and systemic point of view.
- Annual organization of National Systemic
Meetings with the presence of noted national and foreign systemists.
- Publication of the first Dictionary of
Systemics and Cybernetics (in Spanish) in collaboration with the Andean
Institute of Systems (IAS) of Lima,
Perú. (1992)
- Being multidisciplinary, our association
has members coming from different disciplines: lawyers, physicians,
engineers, teachers, etc., in order to reach a transdiciplinarian
dialogue, based in isomorphies as a systemic concept.
- Members of GESI participate frequently in
International Conferences and are also members of the board of various
international systems and cybernetic societies and journals.
- Through its presence at the web: www.gesi-online.com.ar GESI spreads information on the subject to
latinamerican colleagues and worldwide , also en couraging the participation of investigators,
students and anybody interested in the study, practice and divulgation of
the systemic methodology and cybernetics.
In view of all
kind of crisis within human societies and the need to understand global
complexity at all levels, GESI insists on the importance of the new and more
coherent view and reflexive action within Groups, offered by the methodology based on Systems and
Cybernetics.
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