VITAE:  Stuart A. Umpleby

9/30/2007

Position:    

Professor
Department of Management
School of Business
The George Washington University
Washington, DC  20052

and Director, Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning (www.gwu.edu/~rpsol)
The George Washington University
Washington, DC  20052

MGT 201   Management and Organization
MGT 216   Cross-Cultural Management
MGT 390   Philosophical Foundations of Administrative Research
 

Courses taught previously:

MGT 220   Analytical Models for Decision Making
MGT 261   Introduction to Systems Theory and Cybernetics
MGT 262   Interactive Planning and the Viable System Model
MGT 264   System Dynamics Modeling
MGT 265   Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics
MGT 270   Mathematics and Statistics for Management
MGT 290   Total Quality Management and Systems Thinking
MGT 391   Methodological Foundations of Administrative Research
 

Consulting Activities:

Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (April 1970)
Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Canadian Government, Ottawa (March 1971)
State Legislature, Honolulu, Hawaii (April 1971)
Urban Systems Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle (August 1974)
Human Development Projects, Institute for Cultural Affairs,
Ivy City, Washington, D.C. (November 1976)
Shantumbu, Zambia, Africa (December 1976)
Woburn Lawn, Jamaica (June 1978)
Conacaste, Guatemala (July 1978)
Academy for Educational Development, Washington,D.C.(1980)
Volunteers in Technical Assistance, Washington, D.C. (1982)
Computer Paradigm, Inc. (1982)
Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C. (1983)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria (1984)
Intertrade, Radovljica, Slovenia (Yugoslavia) (1990)
IBM-ROECE, Vienna, Austria (1990)
World Bank, Washington, DC (2000)
World Bank, Irkutsk, Russia (2002)
Department of Economics and Business, Al-Farabi State National University Almaty, Kazakhstan (2005-  )
 

Program Coordinator for the 1977 annual meeting of the Society for General Systems Research held in Denver, CO.

President of the American Society for Cybernetics, January 1980 to December 1982.

Program coordinator for the first Gordon Research Conference on Cybernetics, August 1984.

American coordinator of a series of panels and small conferences on the subject of cybernetics and systems theory involving scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union, 1981 to 1988.  These meetings were funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Local arrangements chairman of the first public conferenceof the Electronic Networking Association, Washington, DC, November, 1985.

Reviewer of proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation, the Division of Information Science and Technology and the Division of Science Education, Development and Research, 1980s.

Associate Editor of Cybernetics and Systems.  Member of the editorial board of Systems Research and Behavioral Science.  Reviewer of papers submitted to the journals Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Systems Practice and Action Research.

Reviewer of manuscripts for Taylor and Francis Publishing Co. and Plenum Publishing Co.

Chairman of a conference on "Theories to Guide the Reform of Socialist Societies,"  February 2-3, 1990, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Co-chair of symposia on the Cybernetics of Country Development held during the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998.

Special Conferences:

NASA Forum for Speculative Technology:  Information Interactions in the Next Generation.  Saint Simons Island,    
Georgia, May 5-8, 1972.

Conference on Anticipatory Democracy, Aspen Institute for
Humanistic Studies, New York City, November 1972.

Rome Special Conference on Futures Research, Frascati,   Italy, September 1973.

20th Annual National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War
College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, June 4-7, 1974;
participated in two workshops - Graduate Education for the
Military and The U.S. World-Wide Military Command and Control System.

Examples of Presentations:

European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria.  A one day tutorial on the Fundamentals of Cybernetics 1986 and 1990; a half day tutorial on Management Cybernetics 1988; and a half day workshop on the Cybernetics of Science, 1992; a plenary address on "Twenty Years of Second Order Cybernetics," 1994.

Institute for Systems Studies, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, lectures on computer conferencing, cybernetics and systems theory, and theories to guide the reform of socialist societies in 1983, 1988, and 1991.

Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences, presentations on cybernetics and systems theory, 1984.

Institute for Social Management and Union of Scientists, three days of lectures on systems theory, cybernetics, and management, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, 1988.

Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, four lectures on the Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems, July 8 and 9, 1991.  A lecture on "Knowledge of the Use of Knowledge:  The Case of Theories to Guide the Transitions," June 1992.

Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, "Process Improvement Methods and their Impact on the Industrial Competitiveness of Japan and the US," Moscow, 1996.

Civic Activities:

Common Cause Steering Committee for the 21st Illinois Congressional District, Publicity Director from February 1971 to September 1971, Chairman from September 1971 to June 1974.

Member of the Steering Committee of the Washington, D.C.
chapter of the World Future Society, 1976 to 1979. 

Volunteer with the Institute of Cultural Affairs, a local
and international community development organization, 1976 to 1990.

Biographies appear in:

Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1992
Who's Who in the World, 1993
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1995
Who’s Who in the East, 1999-2000, 27th edition
Who’s Who in America, 2003, 57th edition

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