Stuart Umpleby
Professor of Management Science
The George Washington University
November 20, 1992, 12 p.m.
Marvin Center, Room 411, 800 21st Street, NW
Stuart Umpleby is a professor in the Department of Management Science at The George Washington University. In 1981 he began arranging a series of meetings and exchanges between American and Soviet scientists in the fields of cybernetics and general systems theory. Two conferences, one in 1985 in the U.S. and one in 1988 in Russia and Estonia, were supported by The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. With the beginning of perestroika his focus of attention changed to include large-scale social experiments and then economics and management. He has lectured on theories to guide the reform of socialist societies in Austria, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the U.S.