13 Facts About Stuart Umpleby

Stuart Umpleby attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he received degrees in engineering in 1967, in political science in 1967 and in 1969, and a PhD in communications in 1975.

Stuart Umpleby is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics .

In 2007 Stuart Umpleby was awarded The Wiener Gold Medal of the American Society for Cybernetics.

Stuart Umpleby worked to develop and promote second-order cybernetics or biological cybernetics.

Stuart Umpleby provided an example of the amplification of management capability.

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Stuart Umpleby clarified the nature of information in descriptions of the physical relationships among matter, energy, and information.

Stuart Umpleby recently has worked to further develop the Quality Improvement Priority Matrix, a method for determining priorities for improvement and for monitoring perceived improvement.

From 1997 to 2000 Stuart Umpleby worked on the Year 2000 Computer Problem, viewing it as an opportunity to test social science theories using a before and after research design.

Stuart Umpleby refuted this claim by organizing meetings in 1990 in both Washington, DC, and Vienna, Austria, to discuss the theories of economic, political, and social development that can guide the transformation of socialist societies.

Since 1994 the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning at The George Washington University, which Umpleby heads, has hosted over 150 visiting scholars supported by the U S Department of State.

Stuart Umpleby has found that the Participatory Strategic Planning methods developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs not only improve the effectiveness of organizations but lead to more humane management practices and build mutual trust among the participants.

Stuart Umpleby has been an Academician in the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, an honor society created by the International Federation for Systems Research, since 2010.

Stuart Umpleby has written numerous articles, edited several special issues of the journal Cybernetics and Systems, and edited two books:.