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The history of the ASC began in Washington, D.C. in the late 1950's when a group of individuals who had been been meeting monthly to discuss developments in the field of cybernetics, formed an unchartered social organization called the Washington Cybernetics Society. These meetings led to the founding of a national professional organization which was incorporated on July 31, 1964, as the American Society for Cybernetics. The goal of this new organization was to support the development of the discipline of cybernetics, to anticipate the impact of cybernetics, and to provide information on cybernetics. In the postscript to the 1970 edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press) Thomas Kuhn proposed, without attempting to be exhaustive, that a scientific theory or a "disciplinary matrix" consists of symbolic generalizations, beliefs or models, values, and exemplars. Subsequent work at The George Washington University has indicated that two additional categories are useful-guiding questions and techniques. |
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