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VITAE: Stuart A. Umpleby
2/28/2000
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Professor
Department of Management Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
and Director, Research Program in
Social and Organizational Learning
School of Business and Public Management
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052 |
Citizenship: U.S.A.
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1962-67 A.B., Political Science, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
1962-67 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, UIUC
1967-69 A.M., Political Science, UIUC
1969-75 Ph.D., Communications, UIUC
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| Research and Teaching
Experience: |
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1975-pres. Assistant, Associate, and Full
Professor in the Department of Management Science, The George Washington
University
1995-pres. Host of visiting professors from the New Independent States
of the former Soviet Union, funded by the US Information Agency under
the Junior Faculty Development Program
Summer Guest Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies, 1998 Vienna,
Austria
1998-2000 Co-principal Investigator of a research and public education
program on the year 2000 computer crisis, supported by the Nathan
Cummings Foundation and The Washington Post Company
1994-1997 Faculty Facilitator of a quality improvement program in the
School of Business and Public Management, GW
1996 Principal Investigator, a conference on US Aid to Russia, funded by
the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
1992-1993 Faculty Facilitator of a quality improvement program in the
Department of Management Science, GW
Spring Guest Professor, University of Vienna, Institute 1990 of Medical
Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
Spring Guest Scholar at the International Institute for 1984 Applied
Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Fall Instructor for a course on the Fundamentals of 1983 Cybernetics
taught via the computer teleconferencing system based at New Jersey
Institute of Technology
Fall Research Associate in the Department of Social 1983 Systems
Sciences in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Summer Principal Investigator on a grant from the U.S. 1979 Agency for
International Development to construct a system dynamics model of
national development
1978-79 Part-time Instructor, Development Studies Program, U.S. Agency
for International Development, Washington, DC
1977-80 Principal Investigator and Moderator of a Computer Conference on
"General Systems Theory: An Example of the Integration of Scientific
Disciplines," sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Summer Consultant, National Science Foundation 1974 grant,
"Computer-based Communications Utilities"
1973-74 Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, under
a grant from the Point Foundation
Summer Project Co-director for a grant from the Charles 1973 F.
Kettering Foundation's Citizen Involvement Program
Summer Consultant, National Science Foundation 1973 grant,
"Computer-based Community Communications"
1972-73 Project Director, National Science Foundation grant, "Social
Cybernetics and Computer-based Communications Media"
Summer Research Associate, Institute for the Future, 1970 Middletown,
Connecticut
1968-70 Instructor, Department of Political Science, UIUC
1966-70 Research Assistant, Institute of Communications Research and
Computer-based Education Research
Laboratory, NSF-supported Program on the Social Implications of Science
and Technology
Summer Engineer, Maschinenfabrick Froriep, W. Germany 1967
Summer Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, 1966
Pennsylvania
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| Courses taught currently: |
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MGT 201 Management and Organization
MGT 216 Cross-Cultural Management
MGT 390 Philosophical Foundations of Administrative Research
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| Courses taught previously: |
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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 Modelling
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
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| Consulting Activities: |
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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)
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| Professional Activities: |
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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 conference
of 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.
Associate Editor of Cybernetics and Systems. Member of the editorial
board of Systems Research. Reviewer of papers submitted to the journals
Behavioral Science, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and
Systems Practice.
Reviewer of manuscripts for Hemisphere 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.
Chairman of symposia on the Cybernetics of Country Development held
during the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research,
Vienna, Austria, 1990, 1992, 1994,
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| Special Conferences: |
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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.
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| Examples of Presentations: |
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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.
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| Civic Activities: |
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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.
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| Biographies appear in: |
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Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1992
Who's Who in the World, 1993
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1995
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| Personal Data: |
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Date of Birth: March 5, 1944
Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Married, two children |
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