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Prof. Stuart A. Umpleby
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
School of Business
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Dear Stuart:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) -- I am taking the liberty of distributing our previous correspondences here in ATTACHMENT II and III.

Dear E-Colleagues:

(2) These are about my opening speech at the American Society for Cybernetics on October 28th, 2005, which Stuart is now organizing.

Pls retrieve my following previous list distribution;

(05/22/05) Dinner speech at American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) conference in DC in October
This can be retrieved its archive at the URL listed at the top of this msg.

(3) Pls also visit his following papers at <http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/recent.html>;

(a)
Umpleby, S.,
Strengthening the Global University System
Published in Perspectives in Higher Education Reform, Volume 12
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria: Alliance of Universities for Democracy, 2003

(b)
Umpleby, S., and S. Shandruk
Transforming the Global University System into a Resource for Social Improvement
Prepared for the conference on Global Integration of Graduate Programs
Kiev, Ukraine, September 9-13, 2003

(4) Albeit both are similar, those papers are very interesting and good guidance to our GUS project.

As you see in those papers, Stuart points out the following three roles of universities in the Knowledge/Creative Economy Society of the 21st century;

(a) strengthen universities as separate institutions,
(b) enhance the contribution they make to their local and national communities, and
(c) facilitate international interaction among professors, students, and universities.


This is the same as I described in my last following list distribution;

(07/31/05) John Eger's new essay dated July 25th, 2005
This can be retrieved at the URL indicated at the top of this msg, and I am also attaching my slide depicting those three roles — see below.


(5) Those e-colleagues who are new to this list may also visit following papers, if you have time;

(a)
Takeshi Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_II_Intercultur/Utsumi%20Creating%20GUS/Creating_GUS/GUS_web/Creating%20GUS-D12.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F231019

(b)
Marco Antonio R. Dias, Former Director of Higher Education at UNESCO
"Objectives and Institutionalization of the Global University System"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_I_Greetings/Marco%20Antonio%20Dias/Marco_web/DiasD8.htm
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A10D61C49

(c)
W. R. Klemm, Texas A&M University
"Academic Administration Issues for the Global University System"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_III_Global_E-Learning/Klemm,%20W.%20R./GUS%20Organization/KlemmD6_web/KlemmD6.htm
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R1FC25C49

(d)
The above papers are in the following book;

Global Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis - Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Bk_outline-D13.html
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2D252E09

In the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
ÒInterview with Takeshi UtsumiÓ by Parker Rossman


Dear Stuart:

(6) Many thanks for your very interesting following write-up;

A History of the Cybernetics Movement in the Unites States
This can be retrieved at the archive of this list at the URL listed at the top of this msg.

As you say, Carl Hammer of UNIVAC was one of the founders of your American Society for Cybernetics (ASC).  Incidentally, he invited me with NSF travel fund to present my first paper on our following project at the International Conference on Computer Communication at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, in October, 1972;

Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Utsumi,%20Tak/GCEPG_D10_Web/GCEPG_D10.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1D121E09


This project is based on the System Dynamics methodology which was originated by Prof. Jay W. Forrester of M.I.T., as the outgrowth of the Cybernetics Theory initiated by Norbert Wiener.

(7) Your above paper says that there are following three fields which applies cybernetics theory;

(a) Engineering Cybernetics,
(b) Biological Cybernetics,
(c) Social Cybernetics.


I initiated computer simulation of process control of petrochemical plant while I worked at Stone & Webster Engineering Company in Boston almost 35 years ago, which was the direct utilization of engineering cybernetics.  I then moved my interest to peace gaming as mentioned above, which is the direct application of social cybernetics.

(8) I organized 1971 Summer Computer Simulation Conference (which I created and named) -- it was truly interdisciplinary conference with more than 600 attendees.  This conference, since then, flourished as having many branch conferences not only various regions of the US but also in Europe and Japan, etc.

Since these conferences are more down-to-earth practical, they might have diverted some members from your ASC — as referring to your mentioning on the decline of ASC membership.

I will mention of these things during my presentation at your conference, too.

(9) I will start working on my presentation slides and send to you for your comments.

Keep in touch.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I



> From: Stuart Umpleby <umpleby@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Stuart Umpleby <umpleby@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:00:27 -0400
> To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Subject: Re: Register Now for 28th Annual Conference
>
> Dear Tak, Yes, please speak from your personal experience.  That is what I
> want to know, and I am sure the audience as well.  If you will send me PPT
> slides, I shall look at them and comment on them.  Some mention of the history
> of cybernetics might be appropriate for this event.  See my paper attached and
> other papers at www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/recent.html .  Best regards, Stuart

ATTACHMENT II

 

From: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:26:37 -0400
To: Stuart Umpleby <umpleby@gmail.com>
Cc: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Register Now for 28th Annual Conference

 

Dear Stuart:

(1) Many thanks for your insightful msg.

(2) I still prefer the original title of my speech, since it condenses the motivation of my life-long endeavor out of my personal devastating experiences during the WWII — which will be mentioned as an introductory of my speech at your conference.

My second preference is ÒCreating Global University System.Ó

(3) I think that the aim of education, particularly of higher education (particularly in the US), needs to be up-heaved to higher level of achieving/attaining peace rather than mere enhancement of job-skills -- in the Knowledge Age of the 21st Century.

The first step for this is to utilize advanced broadband Internet, as you are doing with the prolific use of email for editing papers for your book — as I did so with our book, too.

This will then lead to the development of Globally Collaborative Innovation Network (GCIN) -- which, I hope, foster understanding of the interdependences of interwoven world phenomena with rational analysis and critical thinking (using cybernetics technique), and then the mutual understanding and trust among world-wide youngsters, and hence attaining global peace.  I will mention of our large scale videoconference with the use of the world largest economic simulation system with prominent economists of Japan and the US (Lester Thurow of MIT, etc.) which was made almost two decades ago, on the issue of the US-Japan trade conflict.

I then hope that youngsters would create their own global culture for the 21st century — I hope this is to be the distill of both of the western and eastern cultures — I will mention of this during my speech, too.

(4) We have many, many things to do, and hence very challenging, too — e.g., overcoming language barriers, cultural differences, and more specifically on the Òmind-changeÓ from industrial age to knowledge age, and then foreseeing the age of spirituality.  I will talk about them in my speech, too.

(5) I agree with you that the bureaucrats at the World Bank and other international organizations do not have enough insight and foreseeing vision on the future of education and ICT.  They are still sticking on the mind of the industrial age.

Our GUS approach is to make a higher educational institution as the Knowledge Center of their community for not only providing e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine, but also to lead their community development and then to be the gateway for global collaboration — I will mention of this during my speech, too.

Pls feel free to give me your thoughts so that I can formulate my talk at your conference in October in DC.

Thank you again for your cordial invitation.

Best, Tak

 

ATTACHMENT III


> From: Stuart Umpleby <umpleby@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Stuart Umpleby <umpleby@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:58:47 -0400
> To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Subject: Re: Register Now for 28th Annual Conference
>
> Dear Tak, many thanks for resending your title, abstract and bio.  My
> trip to SE Europe and Central Asia was long and complicated but
> productive.  I gave papers at conferences, advised on curricula, etc.
>   Re your title and abstract, my inclination is to emphasize that a
> global network of universities now exists (thanks largely to your
> efforts) in terms of the ability of faculty members to collaborate on
> co-authored papers and proposals.  I have recently co-authored papers
> with profs. in quite a few countries, made possible by the internet.
> However, this capability is not being used as actively as is possible.
>  This has been my main message.  I think the implications are quite
> revolutionary both for the sharing of ideas, research methods, and
> teaching styles as well as the reform of universities. (In the former
> USSR salaries are so low it is common for faculty members to accept
> money for admission, good grades, and graduation.  A large part of
> their administrative structures and procedures are designed to ensure
> quality in the face of this widespread activity.  Hence, the focus of
> administration in these universities is quite different from the focus
> of administration in US universities.)  In my view sharing ideas and
> reforming existing institutions (sometimes by setting up competing
> private universities) are the basics.  Distance education is growing
> fast and will be very important.
>   Simulations to promote peace seem advanced and exotic to me.  I
> hesitate to get involved at this level and wonder how much impact such
> exercises have.  Obviously you have more experience, and I look
> forward to hearing what you have to report.  My feeling is that if we
> can get an increasing number of faculty members to continue to
> collaborate and share ideas following exchange programs (as I have
> been doing), I think the long term results will be quite good.  Hence,
> my inclination would be to not mention global peace directly (It is an
> aspiration of nearly everyone but seems hard to achieve.) and rather
> emphasize the opportunities for academics that exist today and then
> suggest how they can be used, probably by telling stories of what is
> now occurring in several countries.  A few stories of what is already
> happening would be very nice and, I think, would be very
> thought-provoking for the audience.
>    I have been disappointed that the people at the W Bank have not
> been investing in education.  They seem to see electronic media as
> something they can use for their internal operations rather than as
> something they could fund that will build capacity in the countries
> they work with.  Since they are a bank, they focus on return on
> investment.  That is harder to calculate with education than with
> roads, dams, and electric power grids, so they tend not to be
> interested in education, particularly higher education where the
> effects are more long term.  I hope this may be changing.
>   Hence, as a title, I suggest "creating the global university
> system", "strengthening the global university system", or
> "implications of the global university system."  For me GUS is not an
> institution or an administrative apparatus or a curriculum.  Rather,
> it is an existing capability that I use every day.  To avoid confusion
> with your work, I have begun using the phrase "global network of
> universities."  But these are just my ideas.  I want to hear what you
> have to say.  You have been working in this area more than I.  What
> are the obstacles to the spread of GUS?  I mentioned corruption in
> universities in developing countries and procedures in the World Bank.
>  What others have you encountered?  A history of your efforts and/or a
> discussion of current obstacles along with some stories of successes
> would be of great interest to me and I think to others.
>    Unfortunately, George Soros has cancelled in order to attend an
> important business meeting.  I am hoping he will give a talk on
> another occasion at GW before the ASC conf. so we can show a videotape
> of his ideas on reflexivity theory during the ASC conf..  Systems
> scientists Russell Ackoff and John Warfield have agreed to give
> luncheon talks.  I am planning for your talk to be the first of the
> conference.
>    Best regards, Stuart

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