This archive shows the "did you know" facts in the field of systems and systems sciences.

Current "did you know" facts

• ...that systems art (picture) is an art movement from the 1960s influenced by systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself?

• ...that a successful experimental system must be stable and reproducible enough for scientists to make sense of the system's behavior, but unpredictable enough that it can produce useful results?

• ... that the anthropologist, linguist, and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson most noted writings are Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1980).

• ... that a multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents, which can be used to solve problems which are impossible for monolithic system to solve.

• ... that the American systems scientist John Nelson Warfield found systems science to consist of a hierarchy of sciences.
  • Beginning at the base, with a science of description,
  • continuing vertically with a science of design,
  • then a science of complexity,
  • and next a science of action, called "Interactive management".

• ...that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?

• ... that self-organization is a process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source.

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• ...that American systems theorist Debora Hammond in the new millennium explores new ways of thinking about complex systems that support more participatory forms of social organization?

• ... that the American biologist Christopher Langton in the late 1980s is one of the founders of the field of artificial life.

• ... that the Yugoslavian Mihajlo D. Mesarovic in 1970s wanted to provide a unified and formalized mathematical approach to all major systems concepts.

• ... that the Austrian American Heinz von Foerster in 1960 in Science magazine stated, that the human population would reach "infinity" and he proposed a formula for predicting future population growth.

• ... that the American ecologist Howard T. Odum in 1950 gave a novel definition of ecology as the study of large entities (ecosystems) at the "natural level of integration".

• ...that the American neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard late 1940s developed an intracellular recording microelectrode, that revolutionized research in neurobiology?

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