ÿþ<!-- Generated by the Home Page Wizard -- CompuServe Inc. -- Last Updated : Mar 17, 1999 17:59 -> <html> <!-- The following HTML tags are the header and title tags. These tags allows you to specify a title for this page. --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>People</title> <!-- The following HTML tag is the body tag. This defines the body portion of this page or document. --> </head> <body> <TABLE><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=250> <P><IMG height=150 alt=People src="People.gif" width=224></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top> <P>***</P><P><B>WOSC People</B> </P><P>***</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <!-- The following is an HTML headline tag. Values for this tag range from H1 (largest) to H6 (smallest). --> <h1>People</h1> <h4>Board of Directors</h4> <!-- The following HTML is just plain text. --> <p>The Director-General of WOSC is Professor Raúl Espejo (UK) who is assisted by a Board of Directors in promoting systems theory and cybernetics in the 37 countries that are involved, especially the 22 where there are affiliated societies or institutions.</p> <p>The members of the Directorate are:</p> <h5>President</h5> <ul> <li>Professor R. Vallée (France)</li> </ul> <TABLE><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=250> <P><IMG height=159 alt=R. Vallée src="ValleeGIF.gif" width=143></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top> <P>***</P><P><B>Prof. Robert Vallée </B> </P><P>***</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <h5>Vice-President</h5> <ul> <li>Professor Brian H. Rudall (UK) -- Director of the Norbert Wiener Institute of WOSC</li> </ul> <TABLE><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=250> <P><IMG height=165 alt=B. Rudall src="BrianPic.gif" width=180></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top> <P>***</P><P><B>Prof. Brian Rudall</B> </P><P>***</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <h5>Founder and Honorary Director (In Memoriam)</h5> <ul> <li>Prof. J. Rose (UK)</li> </ul> <h5>Director-General</h5> <ul> <li>Professor Raúl Espejo (UK)</li> </ul> <TABLE><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=250> <P><IMG height=140 alt=R Espejo src="RE4.JPG" width=220></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top> <P>***</P><P><B>Prof. Raúl Espejo</B> </P><P>***</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <h5>President in Memoriam</h5> <ul> <li>Dr Norbert Wiener (USA)</li> </ul> <h5>Past-President in Memoriam</h5> <ul> <li>Prof. Stafford Beer (UK)</li> </ul> <h5>Directors</h5> <ul> <li>Dr Alex Andrew (UK)</li> </ul> <TABLE><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=250> <P><IMG height=176 alt=A. Andrew src="AAPic2.JPG" width=136></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top> <P>***</P><P><B>Dr. Alex Andrew</B> </P><P>***</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <ul> <li>Dr Constantin Bilciu (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Dwijesh Dutta Majumder (India)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Nan-chon Hu (P.R. of China)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Amaranto Lopes Pereira (Brazil)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Mohamed Najim (Morocco)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Martin Smith (UK)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Jerzy Józefczyk (WrocBaw, Poland)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Matjaz Mulej (Maribor, Slovenia)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Markus Schwaninger (St Gallen, Switzerland)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Vadim L. Stefanuk (Moscow, Russia)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Professor Yi Lin (Jeffrey Yi Lin Forrest) (Slippery Rock, PA, USA)</li> </ul> <h4>Honorary Fellowships</h4> <p>The following have accepted the WOSC invitation:</p> <ul> <li>Professor Julong Deng ( P.R. of China)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>D. Gabor, Nobel Laureate (UK)(In Memoriam)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>B.D. Josephson, Nobel Laureate (UK)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>L. Pauling, Nobel Laureate (USA)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>I. Prigogine, Nobel Laureate (Belgium)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>H.A. Simon, Nobel Laureate (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Evelyne Andreewski (France)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A.M. Andrew, Reading (UK)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A. Balevski, Bulgarian Acad. Sci. (Bulgaria)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>S. Beer, Manchester Business School (UK)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>J. Bigelow, Princeton Inst. Adv. Stud. (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Zdislaw Bubnicki (Poland)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>C. Chagas, Vatican Acad. Sci. (Brazil)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A. Danzin, I.N.R.I.A. (France)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>D. Drimer, Ecol. Univ. Bucharest (Romania)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>R. Ericson, Soc. Gen. Syst. Res. (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>R. Espejo, Univ. Lincolnshire (UK)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>F.H. George, Brunel Univ. (UK)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>F. Geyer, Centre Co-ord. Res. Soc. Sci. (Netherlands)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A. Ghosal, SOMAC (India)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hermann Haken, Stuttgart (Germany)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>T.C. Helvey, Univ. Tenn. (USA)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>C. Hammer, Sperry-Univac (USA)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Jerzy Józefczyk, WrocBaw (Poland)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Kozesnik, Cze.-Slo. Acad. Sci. (In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>L. Kumar, Goverm. of India (India)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>M. Manescu, Acad. Econ. Stud. (Romania)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>M.D. Mesarovic, West. Res. Univ. (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Matjaz Mulej, Maribor (Slovenia)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>M. Nalecz, Pol. Acad. Sci. (Poland)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>E. Nicolau, Polytch. Inst. Bucharest (Romania)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>J.D. Palmer, IEEE (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>S. Ramo, T.R.W. Inc. (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>B.H. Rudall, U. North Wales (UK)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>J.G. Santesmases, A.E.I.A. (Spain)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Sifeng Liu (P.R. of China)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Yi Lin (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>M. Valentinuzzi, Inst. Cyber. (Argentina)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>R. Vallée, Univ. Paris-Nord. (France)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Sir G. Vickers (UK)(In M.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>L.A. Zadeh, Univ. Cal. (USA)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>J. v.d. Zouwen, F. Univ. Am. (Netherlands)</li> </ul> <h4>Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal</h4> <ul> <li>N. Ceausescu (1978)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>T.C. Helvey (1981)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>S. Beer (1984)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>J. Rose (1987)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>R. Vallée (1990)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>H. von Foerster (1995)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>B.H. Rudall (1996)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>I. Prigogine (1999)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>C. Pert (2000)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Alex Andrew (2009)</li> </ul> <h4>Internal links to other pages:</h4> <!-- The following HTML tag is the internal link tag. 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