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.

Stafford Beer in particular both wrote a preface to one of the papers in Maturana & Varela ( 1980 ) Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living and develops applications in his own work on cybernetics and the viable system model.

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.

* 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.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

He was persuaded to stay on by Stafford Cripps, a wealthy socialist who agreed to pay him an additional salary.

* Freya Stafford, actress who has appeared on TV programs such as Head Start and White Collar Blue and the 2010 horror film, The Clinic

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.

Dr. Kimble, who was born on March 27, 1927 in Stafford, Indiana, is a respected pediatrician in Stafford.

Key gave the poem to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph H. Nicholson, who saw that the words fit the popular melody " The Anacreontic Song ", by English composer John Stafford Smith.

The five principal suspects are King Richard, his erstwhile ally Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham ; Richard's servant James Tyrrell, and Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry Tudor, who defeated Richard at Bosworth Field and took the throne as Henry VII.

* Michelle Thomas ( Nancy Stafford ) – An American lawyer living in London who becomes an equal partner to Matlock ( 1987 – 1992 )

The reality of Juan Diego's existence has been questioned by a number of experts on the early religious history of New Spain including Bernardino de Sahagun, Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, Stafford Poole, Louise Burkhart and David Brading, who argue that there is a complete lack of sources about Juan Diego's existence prior to the publication of the Nican Mopohua a century later, in 1649 ( they do not accept the validity of the Codex Escalada as historical evidence ).

Heroes and heroines included Sylvia Landry and Reverend Jacobs, criminals such as Larry, and " lackeys " such as a minister whom Mrs. Stafford supported, who encouraged African Americans to reject suffrage.

* Buckingham's paternal grandfather was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was the grandson and senior descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.

Northcote was named for Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, an English Statesman and financier who had financial interests in James J. Hill's projects.

The county is named in memory of Lewis Stafford, captain of Company E, First Kansas Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Young's Point, Madison Parrish, Louisiana, June 7, 1863.

The youngest to hold office was Edward Stafford, who was 37 years old when he became Premier in 1856.

Writers who are or have been residents of Kingston include Steven Heighton, Bronwen Wallace, Helen Humphreys, Michael Ondaatje, Joanne Page, Diane Schoemperlen, Eric Folsom, Michael Crummey, Melanie Dugan, Mark Sinnett, Mary Alice Downie, Robertson Davies, Douglas Fetherling, Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds, Ellen Stafford, Alec Ross, Jamie Swift, Carolyn Smart, Sarah Tsiang, Joanne Stanbridge, Laurie Lewis, and Alexander Scala.

* James Cardinal Stafford, an American cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Archbishop of Denver, Bishop of Memphis, and Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore

One of the prime movers of the emigration was Colonel Joab Stafford, who built his house on Stafford Hill and led the men of Cheshire into war during the Revolution.

* Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon, mistress of Henry VIII who was prosecuted for adultery with his friend, William Compton ; also sister of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham

* Stafford Huyler, a cartoonist who created NetBoy, one of the first Webcomics

These schools 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, Stafford Township and Ocean Township who attend as part of sending / receiving relationships.

These schools are part of the Southern Regional School District, which serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District — Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom and Surf City — along with students students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township and Ocean Township who attend as part of sending / receiving relationships.