Cybernetics Society

The Cybernetics Society is a UK-based learned society that exists to promote the understanding of Cybernetics. The core activity of the Cybernetics Society is the organization and facilitation of scientific meetings, conferences, and social events. The society's website provides information and news items for professionals in the field and the general audience in order to improve the understanding of cybernetics and associated disciplines. The society was founded at King's College London by Dr Haneef Fatmi, Dr Kevin Clifton, Dr David Hayes, Dr Alan Hill, and Dr Christopher Harris. The society is authorised following the Friendly Societies Act 1974 and members and fellows of the Society can use the credentials of MCybS and FCybS. Notable members of the society include Martin Smith who for many years was the President and Dr D.J. Stewart who has been the Vice President.^[1]

Past Chairmen and Presidents

Source:^[2]

• 1968-1976 Haneef Fatmi
• 1976-1979 Gordon Pask
• 1979-1984 Igor Aleksander
• 1984-1995 Haneef Fatmi
• 1995-1999 Brian Warburton
• 1999-2020 Martin Smith
• 2020- present (?) John Beckford

Fellows on the Board of Directors of WOSC: - The World Organisation of Systems & Cybernetics: http://www.cybsoc.org/wosc/ Professor B.H. Rudall (Director of the Norbert Wiener Institute) Professor Martin Smith (President of the Cybernetics Society).

Among the activities of the Society are:

• Annual Conference: Annual conferences of the Cybernetics Society are held since 1973.^[3][4]
• CYBCOM: CYBCOM is a Cybernetics discussion group.^[5]
• Fellows of the Cybernetics Society: Some of the numerous fellows are Ranulph Glanville, Charles Hampden-Turner, Mick Ashby (Ethical regulator), Dr D.J. Stewart (Nudge theory), Dr James Wilk (Nudge theory), Dr Martin Smith^[6] and Dr David Dewhurst.^[7]
• Honorary fellows : Among those awarded by the Cybernetics Society are: Eric Ash, Anthony Stafford Beer, Margaret Boden, James W. Black, John Carew Eccles, James Lovelock, Roger Penrose, Horace Barlow and Abdus Salam.^[8] Recent awardees include Stephen Brewis, David Deutsch, Fredmund Malik, Humberto Maturana and Kevin Warwick.^[9]
• Kybernetes: The Society is working together with the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics on Kybernetes, The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences.
• IFSR: They are a member of the International Federation for Systems Research.

Enacting Cybernetics

Enacting Cybernetics

Discipline	Cybernetics
Language	English
Edited by	Ben Sweeting
Publication details
History	2023–present
Publisher	The Cybernetics Society, hosted by Ubiquity Press
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Enact. Cybern.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2754-5512
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The society publishes an open access journal, Enacting Cybernetics, hosted by Ubiquity Press. The journal is focused on "exploring and developing the many ways in which cybernetics may be practiced in the world."^[10]