Session M3, BCL celebration, 141 Loomis chaired by Stuart Umpleby (umpleby@gwu.edu)
4:30pm Karl Mueller, director of the Vienna Institute for Social Documentation and Methodology in Vienna, "The Biological Computer Laboratory: An Unfinished Revolution of an Unfinished Revolution"
5:10pm Ricardo Uribe, Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, "Paradoxes and nontrivial machines."

The field of cybernetics originated in the Macy Foundation conferences held in New York City between 1946 and 1953. Chaired by Warren McCulloch, the participants included Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Ross Ashby, and Heinz von Foerster. Von Foerster established the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) at the University of Illinois in 1958. He served as director until 1975 when he retired and moved to California. The laboratory was then closed. The research agenda of BCL was very similar to the field now known as cognitive science. However, few people in cognitive studies in the U.S. are familiar with von Foerster or the work done at BCL. Meanwhile a Heinz von Foerster Society has been established in his home city of Vienna, Austria, and several books have been written describing BCL as an example of a highly productive research team. The work conducted at BCL continues to inspire leading edge research 30 years after it closed. This panel will discuss the ideas developed at BCL in the 1960s and 1970s, how they were generated, why they have received more attention in Europe than the U.S., and how they are currently being developed. Stuart Umpleby will chair the panel on BCL.

Crayton Walker (walker@uconn.edu), Professor Emeritus of Operations and Information Management at the University of Connecticut, will discuss what it was like doing research in BCL�s unusual intellectual climate. He will describe his early work at BCL with Ross Ashby studying complex systems.

Klaus Krippendorff (kkrippendorff@asc.upenn.edu), Gregory Bateson Term Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, will reflect on W. Ross Ashby's role in the development of cybernetics as distinct from systems science, his vision of the field and his role in BCL.

Karl Mueller, director of the Vienna Institute for Social Documentation and Methodology in Vienna, a social science data archive, will speak about the contributions of BCL to cognitive studies and the social sciences. He is co-editor of An Unfinished Revolution? and other books about Heinz von Foerster. He is co-founder of the Heinz von Foerster Society.

Ranulph Glanville (moderators@internetevolution.com), incoming president of ASC and a consultant to academic institutions, will describe how the subject of research at BCL � circularity and conversation � influenced the operating style of BCL.

Stuart Umpleby (umpleby@gwu.edu), will provide an overview of the systems sciences from the 1940s to the present, comparing several schools of thought and emphasizing cybernetics and complex systems. He will explain the evolution of cybernetics and why the later work in cybernetics is more well-known in Europe than the U.S.

Abstracts of the presentations of the panelists

Session T1a, 141 Loomis chaired by Martin Singleton
8:00am Val Bykovsky (val.bykovsky@gmail.com), Space Dynamics Lab, Utah State University, Logan, UT, "Experimenting Systems: An Experiment as a Logic Unit to Build an Exploration Logic"
8:30am Ashish Bhan (abhan@uci.edu), Institute for Genomic and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, "Estimating the significance of literature-derived biological networks"
9:00am David Wolpert (David.H.Wolpert@nasa.gov), NASA Ames Research Center, "Recent developments on the physical limits of inference"

Session T1b, 151 Loomis chaired by Peter Fleck (fleck@uiuc.edu)
8:00am Robert Leve (leve@hartford.edu), Psychology, University of Hartford, "Experimental Verification of Cognitive Overload"
8:30am Manuel Marques Pita (marquesm@indiana.edu), Informatics, Indiana University, The Gulbenkian Institute of Science, and Portland State University, "AitanaRBN: Representational Redescription of Boolean Networks"
9:00am Yue-Kin Tsang (ktsang@ucsd.edu), Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego, "Energy-Enstrophy Stability of beta-plane Kolmogorov Flow with Drag"

Session T1c, 136 Loomis chaired by Davit Sivil
8:00am Ben Ruddell (bruddell@gmail.com), Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC, "An Information Theoretic Approach for the Analysis of Complex Ecohydrologic Systems"
8:30am Beverly McCarter (bgmccarter@hmsystems.net), Human Mosaic Systems, LLC, "Social Aspects of Complexity: Self-Organizational Dynamics"
9:00am Carlos Puente (cepuente@ucdavis.edu), Department of Land, Water, and air Resources, UC Davis, and Andrea Cortis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Understanding Complexity: A Geometric Perspective"

Session T1d, 137 Loomis chaired by Tim Wotherspoon
8:00am Scott A. Hill (sahill@mailaps.org), Physics, University of Dallas, "An attempted model for dynamic centrality in complex networks"
8:30am Bruce Miller (b.miller@tcu.edu), Physics, Texas Christian University, "Multifractal Investigation of One Dimensional Models of the Expanding Universe"
9:00am Ben Ruddell (bruddell@gmail.com), Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC, "Analysis of a Wolfpack Scenario by Quantifying Initiative"

Session W1a, 141 Loomis chaired by Tim Wotherspoon
8:00am Arnomitra Chatterjee (arnomitra@veccal.ernet.in), Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, India, "Markov Property of Continuous Dislocation Band propagation"
8:30am Phil Fraundorf (pfraundorf@umsl.edu), Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Missouri-StL, "Measures of useful information in layered networks"
9:00am David Wolpert (David.H.Wolpert@nasa.gov), NASA Ames Research Center, "It can be smart to be stupid"

Session W1b, 151 Loomis chaired by Peter Fleck (fleck@uiuc.edu)
8:00am Marko Puljic (mpuljic@memphis.edu), Computational Neurodynamics Laboratory Computer Science, University of Memphis, "Chaos by Probabilistic Cellular Automata"
8:30am Ali Mostashari (amostash@stevens.edu), Center for Complex Adaptive Sociotechnological Systems, "Information Dynamics in Hierarchical Organizational Networks"
9:00am Arthur McGurn (arthur.mcgurn@wmich.edu), Physics, Western Michigan University, "Cavities of Crystal Light: Electronically Injected Photonic Crystal Microcavity Light Source May Realize High-Efficiency Single-Mode LED's"

Session W1c, 136 Loomis chaired by Davit Sivil
8:00am Hakan Yasarcan (yasarcanh@yahoo.com), Australian School of Business (Incorporating AGSM), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Improving performances of Novices in Dynamic Managerial Simulation Games: Gradual-Increase-in-Complexity Approach"
8:30am Ting-ting Mao, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Southern Illinois, "Stick and non-stick phenomena in a two degrees of freedom oscillator on a traveling belt"
9:00am William Sulis (sulisw@mcmaster.ca), Collective Intelligence Laboratory , McMaster University, "Stochastic Phase Decoupling in Random Graphical Dynamical Systems"

Session W1d, 137 Loomis chaired by Martin Singleton
8:00am Denton Cockburn (diboss@hotmail.com), "Social Genetic Search Algorithm"
9:30am Bradly Alicea (freejumper@yahoo.com), Cognitive Science and Quantitative Biology and Modeling, Michigan State University, "Morphological Scaling, Behavior, and Evolution: computational and experimental approaches to the genotype-phenotype problem."
9:00am Yu Guo, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Southern Illinois, "Switching Mechanism of Periodic and Chaotic Motions in an Extended Fermi-acceleration Oscillator"

7:30am Continental Breakfast, Loomis Lobby

Session R1b, 151 Loomis chaired by Martin Singleton
8:00am Alexander Silchenko (a.silchenko@fz-juelich.de), Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics 3 - Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany, "Computational modeling of paroxysmal depolarization shifts in neurons induced by the glutamate release from astrocytes"
8:30am Walter Riofrio (Walter.Riofrio@terra.com.pe), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru, "What makes that a representation has the content it does?"
9:00am Aziz Raouak (rouak@efet.ac.ma), Ecole Francais Ensignement Techique, "Guiding Center Trajectories"
9:30am Scott Rzechula (Rzechula@SBCglobal.net), fmr. principal, Chicago School System, Rzechula@SBCglobal.net, "Cybernetics as an Art: Reflections and Anecdotal Illustrations of the Application of Second-Order Cybernetics in the Management of a Chicago Public School"

Session R1c, 136 Loomis chaired by Davit Sivil
8:00am Bing Xue, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Southern Illinois, "An Analytical prediction of regular and chaotic motions in the Chua's Circuit System"
8:30am Brian Raczkowski (raczkwsk@uiuc.edu), Electrical and Computer engineering, UIUC, "Ensuring survival of equilibrium after any single line outage in a power system network"
9:00am Buddhi Rai (buddhi.m.rai@wmich.edu), Physics, Western Michigan University, "Interaction of two different waveguide modes in Kerr media photonic crystal"
9:30am Yang Wang, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Southern Illinois, "The Stochastic Dynamics of a 1-DOF System under Random Discontinuous Piecewise Forcing"

Session R1d, 137 Loomis chaired by Tim Wotherspoon
8:00am Andrew Missel (missel@uiuc.edu), Physics, UIUC, "Bacteria, Hopping Conduction, and First-Passage Percolation"
8:30am Neil Steiner (neil.steiner@isi.edu), Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, "Hardware-Software Interaction: Microscopics and Macroscopics
9:00am Alex Yahja (alexy@uiuc.edu), NCSA, UIUC, "Knowledge-rich dynamic social networks"
9:30am Nicholas Guttenberg (ngutten2@uiuc.edu), Physics, UIUC, "Turbulence and the Wall Scaling of Momentum Transfer in 2D Pipes"