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From: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Announcing mailing list for Cybernetics
Message-ID: <3546@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 27 May 90 22:17:22 GMT
Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY
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I regret that in the following announcement I did not emphasize the
relation between cybernetics, robotics, Artificial Life, and AI
subjects.  This mailing list will be of interest to those working in
"behavior-based robotics" or evolutionary approaches to the construction
of artificial behaving systems.

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     ANNOUNCING FORMATION OF A MAILING LIST FOR SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS
     
     An electronic mailing list dedicated to Systems Science and Cybernetics 
     is currently in operation on the SUNY-Binghamton computer system.  The 
     list is commited to discussing a general understanding of the evolution 
     of complex, multi-level systems like organisms, minds, and societies as 
     informational entities containing possibly circular processes.  Specific 
     subjects include Complex Systems Theory, Self-Organizing Systems Theory, 
     Dynamic Systems Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Network Theory, 
     Semiotics, fractal geometry, Fuzzy Set Theory, Recursive Theory, computer 
     simulation, Information Theory, and more.
     
     The purposes of the list include: 1) facilitating discussion among those 
     working in or just interested in the general fields of Systems and 
     Cybernetics; 2) providing a means of communicating to the general 
     research community about the work that Systems Scientists and 
     Cyberneticians do; 3) housing a repository of electronic files for 
     general distribution concerning Systems and Cybernetics; and 4) providing 
     a central, public directory of working Systems Scientists and 
     Cyberneticians.  The mailing list can store or transmit notes and 
     messages, technical papers, references, calls for papers, computer 
     programs, and pictures and diagrams.
     
     The list is coordinated by members of the Systems Science department of 
     the Watson School at SUNY-Binghamton, and is affiliated with the 
     International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the American 
     Society for Cybernetics (ASC).  The list is open to everyone, and we 
     currently have over three hundred members from America, Canada, and 
     Europe.  Our 
     subscribers are from both academia and industry, and while many are 
     active researchers, others are just "listening in".  We share in an 
     exciting, ongoing, multi-way conversation about many aspects of Systems 
     and Cybernetics.  Different levels and kinds of knowledge and experience 
     are represented.
     
     We invite all to join the discussion.  To subscribe, you need a computer 
     account with access to one of the international networks (e.g. BITNET, 
     USENET, ARPANET, INTERNET, CSNET).  Send a file containing only the line: 
     'SUB CYBSYS-L Your Full Name' to the list server at the address 
     LISTSERV@BINGVMB.BITNET. 
     
     Once subscribed, please post a message to the list itself at the address 
     CYBSYS-L@BINGVMB.BITNET.  In the message, include your name, affiliation, 
     and a brief description of your work and/or interest in the fields of 
     Systems and Cybernetics. 
     
     List moderator: CYBSYS@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU 
     
     Author: Cliff Joslyn, CJOSLYN@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU
     
  


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| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, Box 1070, Binghamton NY 13901, USA
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