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Stuart Umpleby is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management in the School of Business at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science and a PhD in Communications from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL. While at UIUC he worked with Heinz von Foerster and others in the Biological Computer Laboratory. Since 1975 he has been a professor in the Department of Management at George Washington University. For twenty years he directed the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics and Associate Editor of the journal Cybernetics and Systems. He received the Norbert Wiener award from the American Society for Cybernetics. He is now serving as president of the executive committee of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences. His website is: http://blogs.gwu.edu/umpleby.
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Umpleby, S.A. Reflections on systemic problems and solutions. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 26, 265–268 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-017-5341-9
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