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	Anthony Stafford Beer
		Anthony Stafford Beer (September 25, 1926 - August 23, 2002) was an theorist in operational research and management cybernetics.
		Beer was made development director at IPC and pushed for the adoption of new computer technologies.
		In the mid 1970s Beer renounced material possessions and moved to mid-Wales where he lived in an almost austere style, he became interested in poetry and art.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stafford_Beer.html (453 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Stafford Beer
		Stafford Beer, who died on Friday aged 75, was a leading exponent of cybernetics, the theory devised in the 1940s by Norbert Wiener which applied lessons from biology to the management of organisations, and which Beer applied to the management of business.
		Anthony Stafford Beer was born on September 25 1926 at Putney, south-west London, the son of William Beer, chief statistician at Lloyd's Register; his younger brother Ian went on to become headmaster of Harrow.
		Beer had been spending the spring and autumn at his Welsh cottage, the remainder of the year in Toronto.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/28/db2803.xml (712 words)

	<nettime> Stafford Beer and the Socialist Internet
		Stafford Beer, who died last year, was a restless and idealistic British adventurer who had long been drawn to Chile.
		Beer did not go there himself, but one of the Chileans involved, an engineering student called Fernando Flores, began reading Beer's books and was captivated by their originality and energy.
		Beer was in London, lobbying for the Chilean government, when he left his final meeting before intending to fly back to Santiago and saw a newspaper billboard that read, "Allende assassinated." The Chilean military found the Cybersyn network intact, and called in Espejo and others to explain it to them.
	www.mail-archive.com /nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg01047.html (2070 words)

	The Cybernetics Society: In Memory of Stafford Beer
		The Official Stafford Beer website is a commercial site operated by John Moores University in Liverpool which also houses Beer's library of 1,500 books and a collection of papers and artefacts, including the stochastic analogue machine (1956) and the algedonic computer (to study learning systems- the wood and brass machine in "Brain of the Firm").
		Stafford Beer: the man who could have run the world" is an appreciation by Rosemary Bechler.This article was first published on openDemocracy.net.
		Stafford Beer was an Honorary Fellow of the Cybernetics Society and died in Toronto on 23rd August 2002 surrounded by his large extended family of students and friends.
	www.cybsoc.org /contacts/people-Beer.htm (1167 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stafford Beer has been a visiting professor in more than 20 universities in Britain, Europe and North America, including Manchester (where he lectured for 24 years) and Durham Business Schools, the Open University, the Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania, University College Swansea, and the University of Toronto.
		Beer is a Past President of the Operational Research Society, and of the International Society for Social Systems Sciences, and has the McCulloch Award of the American Society for Cybernetics, of which he is now a Trustee.
		Beer proposes a formal model for an infoset to deal with complex challenges or problems, establishing a protocol based on the structure of polyhedra, the icosahedron (convex polyhedron of 30 edges, 20 triangles and 12 vertices), in particular.
	www.isss.org /primer/beer.html (1337 words)

	Stafford Beer: the man who could have run the world Rob Passmore Rosemary Bechler - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stafford Beer, philosopher, scientist, poet, painter, founder of Management Cybernetics and world leader in operational research, who has died at the age of 75, was much larger than life.
		Stafford, who was tremendously proud when his many visiting chairs, presidencies and honorary degrees were capped by the rare award to him of a DSc from the University of Sunderland in 2000, nevertheless cut his own path.
		The nearest Stafford Beer came to the latter was the period in the early 1970s he spent as an independent consultant to Chile’s president, Salvador Allende.
	www.opendemocracy.net /themes/article-10-611.jsp (1858 words)

	Y-WORLD #22
		Stafford Beer was commissioned by the left-leaning Chilean government led by Salvador Allende that came to power in 1971, to devise a cybernetic system for monitoring and regulating the Chilean economy, based on ideas that were contained in two books he wrote, "Designing Freedom" and "The Brain of the Factory".
		Beer's ideas were revolutionary, not only in concept but also from the perspective of the development of economic models that exploited the revolution in computer science and information technology.
		Stafford Beer by the way, is a person with a lot of innovative ideas and was well ahead of his time, although I have some problems with the hierarchical structure he proposed in "Designing Freedom" ("The buck stops in the President's office" approach).
	www.williambowles.info /wb/ft022.html (970 words)

	Anthony Stafford Beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beer had become aware of operational research while in the army and he was quick to identify the advantages it could bring to business.
		Beer left IPC in 1970 to work as an independent consultant, focusing on his growing interest in social systems.
		Beer was a visiting professor at almost thirty universities and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leeds, the University of Sunderland and the University of Valladolid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Stafford_Beer (614 words)

	Stafford Beer Medal, The OR Society
		This award is named in memory of Stafford Beer, a world leader in the development of systems ideas, especially management cybernetics, and President of the OR Society 1970-71.
		The Stafford Beer Medal is awarded in recognition of the most outstanding contribution to the philosophy, theory or practice of Information Systems and / or Knowledge Management published in the European Journal of Information Systems or Knowledge Management Research and Practice within the relevant year.
		The Stafford Beer Medal will be awarded to the contribution which in the judgement of the Awards Committee makes the most outstanding contribution to the philosophy, theory or practice of Information Systems and / or Knowledge Management.
	www.orsoc.org.uk /ors/activity/activity_awards_beer.htm (775 words)

	Obituary: Stafford Beer \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Professor Stafford Beer, who has died aged 75, was a remarkable figure of British operational research (OR) - the study of systems that emerged from deploying newly invented radar in the late 1930s, and has since found extensive management applications.
		Beer was born in London, where his father was chief statistician at Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
		In 1974 Beer renounced material possessions and moved from the London suburbs to live in very simple style in a small stone cottage in the remote hills of Ceredigion, mid-Wales.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,785671,00.html (1015 words)

	ope-l-0309: Re: Stafford Beer
		I was co-teaching with Stafford at the Manchester Business School on the day they assassinated Allende and deposed the democratically elected government (courtesy of the CIA).
		Stafford served as an advisor to the Economics Minister (and was not simply an 'eccentric from Surrey', but held many distinquished academic and consulting posts in the U.S, UK, Canada, and elsewhere).
		Stafford developed a socialist cybernet model for popular participation in > the management of the Chilean economy.
	ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu /~cottrell/OPE/archive/0309/0018.html (370 words)

	First Metre
		Stafford was impressed - for here was the essence of his work in print.
		He then entered the world of consultancy and in the early seventies was invited by President Allende to apply his principles of viable systems to the Chilean economy, a project sadly frustrated by the CIA supported coup of 1973.
		Stafford noted that government and business are both only too often guilty of an ignorance of the consequences of their actions and for which there can be no legitimate excuses.
	www.firstmetre.co.uk /library/documents/492 (841 words)

	SBeer
		A commemoration event: "Stafford Beer - Celebration of a Life" was held on Thursday, September 19 in the Junior Common Room at Massey College, Toronto.
		Another called: "Stafford Beer - Later at the Bar" was held on September 20 in the Idler Pub, Toronto.
		The Official Stafford Beer Website is a mine of information, maintained and updated by Liverpool John Moores University.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /alexandrew/SBeer_HvF.htm (990 words)

	Business Library, The University of Western Ontario
		Beer passed away on August 23, 2002 at the age of 75.
		Beer founded two major pioneering operational research groups, wrote some of the best books about it, and was a world leader in the development of systems ideas." According to The Times (September 9, 2002): "Stafford Beer was at the forefront of introducing modern management methods and thinking in Britain from the 1950s.
		Because of Beer's eclectic interests, his works are found scattered throughout the stacks in various libraries on campus.
	www.lib.uwo.ca /business/beer.html (581 words)

	A Cybernetics Library
		This is the text of six radio broadcasts by Stafford Beer (given in the autumn of 1973) as the thirteenth series of Massey Lectures which were established in 1961 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)to enable distinguished authorities in fields of general interest and importance to present the results of original study or research.
		Professor Stafford Beer address (October 2001) delivered at the University of Valladolid, Spain on the ocassion of the university bestowing the the high honour of Doctor Honoris Causa.
		Stafford Beer gives his reflections, as a cybernetician, on the practice of planning in a presentation directed at a professional audience of planners.
	www.squidoo.com /cybernetics_library (1592 words)

	Viable System Model
		Biographical information on Stafford Beer, the acknowledged father of the field of managerial cybernetics can be found on his official web site and some of his many papers can be found on the collaborative site Cwarel Isaf Institute he established.
		Beer was a visiting professor at almost thirty universities and received a honorary doctorate from the University of Leeds.
		Stafford Beer's thinking and the avenues he opened to solutions are of fundamental importance to management in complex systems.
	www.squidoo.com /vsm (2386 words)

	IngentaConnect Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cybernetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stafford was welcomed by many of the early pioneers and formed special bonds with his mentors, Warren McCulloch, Ross Ashby and Norbert Wiener.
		Stafford himself was always eager to support other innovators, sponsoring George Spencer-Brown while he wrote Laws of Form, writing a glowing preface for Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's Autopoeisis and Cognition and writing many reviews of new books in the field.
		Stafford Beer was born on September 25, 1926.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/imp/chk/2002/00000009/F0020003/128 (286 words)

	ope-l-0309: Re: Stafford Beer
		Stafford was not simply an 'eccentric from Surrey'.
		Stafford developed a socialist cybernet model for popular participation in the management of theChilean economy.
		Stafford Beer was the one supervisor I retained.
	ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu /~cottrell/OPE/archive/0309/0017.html (411 words)

	Team Syntegrity CD ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is a holographic model for organizing processes of communication, in particular for the (self-) management of social systems, developed by Stafford Beer1.
		Stafford Beer is not only a professor at several universities in Britain and the United States, the winner of several prizes as well as a president and ex-president of high-ranking scientific societies (so of the Operational Research Society among others).
		Furthermore, a special issue of the Journal Kybernetes was dedicated to Stafford Beer, at an earlier stage: Kybernetes, Vol.
	www.isss.org /teamsyn.html (1984 words)

	Beer on Metasystems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He has long advocated the need for conscious and deliberate design of metasytems as the way to find answers to problems that are in the realm of what he calls "undecidability".
		Stafford Beer describes metasystems as speaking a metalanguage.
		Stafford Beer, Platform for Change, 1975, Wiley, New York.
	www.coexploration.org /~peter/html/beer_on_metasystems.html (137 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stafford Beer: A Personal Memoir - Includes an Interview with Brian Eno: Books: David Whittaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stafford Beer, who died in 2002, was a world famous Professor of Cybernetics (the science of the effective organization and regulation of large complex systems), specialising in holistic management.
		Stafford was also a painter and a poet.
		In 1980 David Whittaker wrote to Stafford Beer and a lively correspondence ensued for nearly 20 years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stafford-Beer-Personal-Memoir-Interview/dp/0954519418 (370 words)

	Amazon.com: Brain of the Firm (Classic Beer Series): Books: Stafford Beer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world’s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched.
		"Stafford Beer’s works represent required reading for everyone who believes that a capacity for rigorous thinking is an essential attribute of today’s successful managers and administrators.
		Beer lays out an intriguing model for the organization and control of the firm based on a combination of cybernetics and neurophysiology.
	www.amazon.com /Brain-Firm-Classic-Beer-Stafford/dp/047194839X (1718 words)

	Area Attractions, Stafford, Kansas
		The course which is 6 miles west and 1½ miles south of Stafford, is a 9 hole golf course with grass greens. It's open to the public; pay when you play.
		Located at 100 S. Main in Stafford, this 21-room museum depicts the county's history through artifacts dating from the 1800's to the present. A wealth of regional data is maintained in the genealogical libray. Open Tuesday-Thursday 1:30-3:30pm, Saturday.
		Stafford is "The Gateway" to the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, 6 miles north and 6 miles east of Stafford. The refuge is a birdwatcher's paradise.
	www.hendersonbandb.com /sfarea.htm (320 words)

	Stafford Beer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stafford Beer, who died in 2002, was a world famous Professor of Cybernetics specialising in holistic management and organizational transformation.
		This book is based on about 50 of Stafford’s lively letters to David over a 20 year period.
		He talks about his own friendship with Stafford and the significance of his cybernetic ideas for music making.
	www.wavestonepress.co.uk /staffordbeer.html (129 words)

	BPT Lecture 4 - VSM
		The operations research background leads Beer to claim that the model is "really" mathematical (but expressed in diagrams for simplicity) and that as such it is logically necessary (must always be true) and can be rigorously (objectively?) applied.
		Beer points out that since we assume the subsystems are viable the only monitoring information necessary is in principle a simple "yes" or "no".
		Beer stresses that system 3* should only be used for checking, not as an extra channel for delivering new policy instructions.
	www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au /~jim/bpt/vsm.html (4636 words)

	Stafford Beer, Morse Peckham, Stewart Brand, Edward de Bono and Christopher Alexander?
		Note: Richard has offered to write an updated article on Stafford Beer, Eno and Cybernetics, which should be added in place of this at some time in the future.
		This is Beer's central book - a literate well experienced evocation of the best in operations research : the structure of management.
		-- ******> RECENT ARTICLES by Stafford Beer** * Easter.; In: Systems research : the official journal of the 1993 v 10 n 3 * May the Whole Earth Be Happy: Loka Samastat Sukhino Bhavant Lessons from Eastern philosophy for Western managers and management scientists ; In: Interfaces.
	music.hyperreal.org /artists/brian_eno/rjoly.html (1457 words)

	Professor Stafford Beer - passed away 23 August 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beer himself was well aware of Shewhart's work and was, by his own admission, a big fan of Deming.
		A career soldier in his youth, Beer will chiefly be remembered for his contributions to operational research, cybernetics and his social economy systems work for President Allende in Chile.
		A World Citizen, Stafford was always at the cutting edge, for example developing neural networks in the 1960's and using microwave and fibre optical technology in Chile the early 70's.
	deming.eng.clemson.edu /lists/den.list/2002.09/msg00016.html (606 words)

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