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| − | + | '''Stafford Beer''' (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics. He was an architect of ''Cybersyn'', a Chilean project from 1971-73 during the presidency of Salvador Allende which aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. | |
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=506 Designing Freedom]'', 1974. | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=506 Designing Freedom]'', 1974. | ||
* ''Brain of the Firm'', Allen Lane, 1972; 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1981. [http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/doc/beer.pdf] | * ''Brain of the Firm'', Allen Lane, 1972; 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1981. [http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/doc/beer.pdf] | ||
| − | + | ==Literature== | |
* Raul Espejo (ed.), ''Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics'' 33(3/4): "Tribute to Stafford Beer", 2004. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=389] | * Raul Espejo (ed.), ''Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics'' 33(3/4): "Tribute to Stafford Beer", 2004. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=389] | ||
* Miller Medina, Jessica Eden, ''[http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39176 The State Machine: Politics, Ideology, and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973]'', 2005. | * Miller Medina, Jessica Eden, ''[http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39176 The State Machine: Politics, Ideology, and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973]'', 2005. | ||
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* Evgeny Morozov, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine "The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation"], ''The New Yorker'', 13 Oct 2014. | * Evgeny Morozov, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine "The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation"], ''The New Yorker'', 13 Oct 2014. | ||
| − | + | ==Links== | |
* [http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/77471.htm Stafford Beer Collection at Liverpool John Moores University], [http://digitool.jmu.ac.uk:8881/R/5RV1YYGFJDJQNNISJ3HRNI2S9HQ3KJLBJTKIF29F7VRA92TC9U-00156?func=collections&collection_id=1234&local_base=STB Digitized material]. | * [http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/77471.htm Stafford Beer Collection at Liverpool John Moores University], [http://digitool.jmu.ac.uk:8881/R/5RV1YYGFJDJQNNISJ3HRNI2S9HQ3KJLBJTKIF29F7VRA92TC9U-00156?func=collections&collection_id=1234&local_base=STB Digitized material]. | ||
[[Category:Cybernetics|Beer, Stafford]] | [[Category:Cybernetics|Beer, Stafford]] | ||
Revision as of 11:18, 30 August 2015
Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics. He was an architect of Cybersyn, a Chilean project from 1971-73 during the presidency of Salvador Allende which aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy.
Stafford Beer on the Cybersyn project, Manchester Business School, 24 May 1974.
Download (WEBM). Source.
Writings
- Designing Freedom, 1974.
- Brain of the Firm, Allen Lane, 1972; 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1981. [1]
Literature
- Raul Espejo (ed.), Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics 33(3/4): "Tribute to Stafford Beer", 2004. [2]
- Miller Medina, Jessica Eden, The State Machine: Politics, Ideology, and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973, 2005.
- Andrew Pickering, The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Informatics, Aarhus: Centre for STS Studies, 2006.
- Miller Medina, Jessica Eden, "Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile", Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006), pp 571-606.
- Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, MIT Press, 2011. [3]
- Jonathan Rosenhead, "Stafford Beer", in Profiles in Operations Research, Springer, 2011.
- Evgeny Morozov, "The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation", The New Yorker, 13 Oct 2014.
