Rosenblueth was an influential member of the core group at the Macy Conferences.
The BCL was to the ideas of Warren McCulloch and the Macy Conferences, as well as many other thinkers in the field of cybernetics.
Shortly after he took office, he organized periodic Macy Conferences on such topics as the special problems women face in medical school and the help women need to combine postgraduate training with motherhood.
In the 1940's and 1950's Dr. von Foerster was a participant in a series of scientific meetings in New York City that became known as the Macy Conferences.
Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, logic modeling, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences.
Macy Conference on Psychiatry.
That group in turn led to a group of scientific meetings called the Macy Conferences, in which Mr. Bigelow participated.
Bateson's interest in the scientific paradigm of systems theory and cybernetics forms a thread running through his work; as one of the original members of the core group of the Macy Conferences he extended their application to the social/behavioral sciences.
The Macy Conferences were a set of meetings of scholars from various disciplines held in New York by the initiative of Warren McCulloch and the Josiah Macy, Jr.
The Macy Conferences were organised by the Josiah Macy, Jr.