†Served as president of ISSS
Introduction to our Luminaries
Russell L Ackoff†
W Ross Ashby†
Bela H Banathy†
Gregory Bateson
Stafford Beer†
Kenneth Boulding†
Peter Checkland†
C West Churchman†
Jay Forrester
Charles Francois
George Klir†
Niklas Luhmann
Humberto Maturana
Margaret Mead†
Warren McCulloch
Charles McClelland†
James Grier Miller†
Howard Odum†
Harold G Nelson†
Gordon Pask†
Howard Pattee
William Powers
Ilya Prigogine†
Anatol Rapoport†
Robert Rosen†
Claude Shannon†
John van Gigch
Francisco Varela†
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Heinz von Foerster†
John von Neumann
Geoffrey Vickers†
John N Warfield†
Paul Watzlawick
Norbert Wiener
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