Important names in contemporary systems science include Russell Ackoff, Béla H. Bánáthy, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Robert L. Flood, Fritjof Capra, Michael C. Jackson, Edgar Morin and Werner Ulrich, among others.

The founder of management cybernetics, Stafford Beer, applied these ideas most notably in his Viable System Model.

Cybersyn was developed by British cybernetics expert Stafford Beer.

* Anthony Stafford Beer ( 1926 – 2002 ), British theorist

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* Stafford Beer ( Viable System Model )

* Stafford Beer World in Torment

Defined in this way, holons are related to the concept of autopoiesis, especially as it was developed in the application of Stafford Beer to second-order cybernetics and viable system theory, but also Niklas Luhmann in his social systems theory.

It was taken up by the cyberneticians Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Stafford Beer and Norbert Wiener himself in the second edition of his " Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine " ( MIT Press 1961 ).

In the 1970s Stafford Beer considered this condition as necessary for autonomy which identifies self-organization in persisting and living systems.

Despite being widely influential within cybernetics, systems theory and, more recently, complex systems, Ashby is not as well known as many of the notable scientists his work influenced, including Herbert A. Simon, Norbert Wiener, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Stafford Beer, and Stuart Kauffman.

Stafford Beer applied Variety to found management cybernetics and the Viable System Model.

Stafford Beer, who founded management cybernetics with his Viable System Model, speaks of metasystems that apply metalanguages which are able to find means of making decisions when necessary improvements cannot be made.

* 1973 – Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom

* Ian David Stafford Beer ( 1969 – 1981 )

The cybernetic arguments of Stafford Beer in his 1974 CBC Massey Lectures, Designing Freedom — that intelligent adaptive planning can increase freedom — are of interest in this regard, as is the technical work of Herbert A. Simon and Albert Ando on the dynamics of hierarchical nearly decomposable systems in economics — namely, that everything in such a system is not tightly coupled to everything else.

* Viable System Model by operations researcher and cybernetician Stafford Beer

The principal architect of the system was British operations research scientist Stafford Beer, and the system embodied his notions of cybernetics in industrial management.

In July of 1971, Stafford Beer was contacted by Fernando Flores, then a high-level employee of the Chilean Production Development Corporation ( CORFO ), for advice on incorporating Beer's theories of cybernetics into the management of the newly nationalized sector of Chile's economy.

* Lecture of Stafford Beer about the system

* Lessons of Stafford Beer

The model was developed by operations research theorist and cybernetician Stafford Beer in his book Brain of the Firm ( 1972 ).

* 1972, Stafford Beer, Brain of the Firm ; Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, Herder and Herder, USA.

Stafford was stationed at this particular watering spot beginning January, 1875.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his second wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Stafford ( daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham ), so he was descended from kings on both sides of his family tree.

The county seat Stafford received almost 2 feet of snow both times.

It was substantially reorganized in 1776 and 1777, with land swapped with both Stafford and Westmoreland Counties to form the modern boundaries.

The Stafford Veterinary Center serves the needs of animals, both large and small.

What is now Barnegat Township was incorporated as Union Township on March 10, 1846, from portions of both Dover Township ( now Toms River Township ) and Stafford Township, while the area was still part of Monmouth County.

These schools are both located in Manahawkin and are part of the Southern Regional School District, which serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District, along with students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township, as well as the sending district of Ocean Township.

However, one historian, Pauline Stafford, theorizes that both archbishops may have consecrated Harold.

Many corporations both large and small, including the United Parcel Service, and Tyco maintain significant operations in Stafford.

Other films paired Woody with a girlfriend, Winnie Woodpecker ( voiced by Grace Stafford ), and a niece and nephew, Splinter and Knothead ( both voiced by June Foray ).

Atherstone has its railway station on this line, with an hourly service 7 days a week to both London and Crewe via Stafford and Stoke.

Due to Tudor propaganda efforts, it was long believed that they were both murdered not long afterward on Richard III's orders ; however, the lack of any conclusive proof of their fate has led to alternative scenarios being proposed, for instance that that both boys were murdered on the orders of one of Margaret Beaufort, Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, John Morton or Henry VII, or that Richard survived.

It is either Jasper Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke, or Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham as both helped rebuild it after Glyndwr's attack.

Altern-8 was formed in Stafford in 1990, as a side project to the already successful Nexus 21 ( a name chosen because of its " futuristic house sound "), when both members were aged 21.

Former UND students who have gone on to notable careers in athletics include former NBA player and current NBA coach Phil Jackson, ice hockey player who played in the 1980 Winter Olympics " Miracle on Ice " game Dave Christian, NHL professional ice hockey players Ed Belfour, Tony Hrkac, Jonathan Toews – captain of the Chicago Blackhawks, Zach Parise – New Jersey Devils, Travis Zajac – New Jersey Devils, T. J. Oshie – St. Louis Blues, Ryan Bayda – Pittsburgh Penguins, Drew Stafford – Buffalo Sabres, Brian Lee – Ottawa Senators, Matt Smaby – Tampa Bay Lightning, Matt Jones – Toronto Maple Leafs, Mike Commodore – Columbus Blue Jackets, Jason Blake – Anaheim Ducks, Ryan Johnson – Vancouver Canucks, NFL professional football players Jim Kleinsasser – and Dave Osborn, both of the Minnesota Vikings, CFL professional football players Weston Dressler, David Griswold – Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Earl of Dudley, of Dudley Castle in the County of Stafford, is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, both times for members of the Ward family.

Henry Howard and Sir Stafford Howard, brothers of the first Baron, were both Members of Parliament.

In the 1930s, both Sir Stafford Cripps and Clement Attlee advocated an enabling act to allow a future Labour government to pass socialist legislation which would not be amended by normal parliamentary procedures and the House of Lords.

Among the most prestigious of these victories were the Race of Champions at Pocono, the Spring Sizzler at Stafford, the Budweiser 200 at Oswego, both major events at Martinsville, the Thompson 300, and a sweep of the six-race Yankee All-Star League series.

It is an extension of an earlier cipher, CAST-128 ; both were designed according to the " CAST " design methodology invented by Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares.

In 1985 Wealdstone became the first team to win the " Non-League Double " of FA Trophy and Football Conference championship ( although in the pre-Conference era both Macclesfield Town and Stafford Rangers had done the double of Northern Premier League championship and FA Trophy in 1970 and 1972 respectively ).

Various faculty movements and further building work resulted in North Staffordshire Polytechnic being formed in 1971 with the merger of Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, North Staffordshire College of Technology ( both based in Stoke-on-Trent ), and Staffordshire College of Technology in Stafford.

In the postseason, Richards took home both the Guy Lafleur Trophy as MVP of the ' Q ' league playoffs, then the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as MVP of the 2000 Memorial Cup, as the Océanic won both the QMJHL playoff title and the CHL national championship.