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Prof. Stuart A. Umpleby
Address:
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
Department of Management,
School of Business,
The George Washington University
2033 K Street NW, Suite 230,
Washington, DC 20052, USA
Tel: (202) 994-1642
Fax: (202) 994-5284
Biographical Sketch
Stuart Umpleby is a professor in the Department of
Management Science and Director of the Center for Social and
Organizational Learning at George Washington University. He
teaches courses in cybernetics and systems theory, the philosophy
of science, cross-cultural management, and computer simulation.
Other interests include total quality management, interactive
planning methods, and computer conferencing.
He received degrees in engineering, political science, and
communications from the University of Illinois in
Urbana-Champaign. While at the University of Illinois he worked
in the Biological Computer Laboratory and the Computer-based
Education Research Laboratory (the PLATO system).
He has been using and designing computer conferencing
systems since 1970. Between 1977 and 1980 he was the moderator
of a computer conference on general systems theory which was
supported by the National Science Foundation. This project was
one of nine "experimental trials of electronic information
exchange for small research communities." About sixty scientists
in the United States, Canada, and Europe interacted for a period
of two and a half years using the Electronic Information Exchange
System (EIES) located at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Umpleby teaches a course in system dynamics modeling. He
constructed a system dynamics model of national development for
the US Agency for International Development, and he was an
instructor for several years in the AID Development Studies
Program.
Since 1981 he has been arranging scientific meetings
involving American and Russian scientists in the area of
cybernetics and systems theory. In 1984 he spent part of a
sabbatical year at the International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis, an East-West research institute located near
Vienna, Austria. In the spring of 1990 he was a guest professor
at the University of Vienna, of Medical Cybernetics and
Artificial Intelligence.
He is a past president of the American Society for
Cybernetics.
Some Recent Papers
