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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: John N. Warfield

Dr. John N. Warfield (1925-2009) was emeritus professor and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS) at George Mason University. He has been elected President of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (formerly …

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Journal: Human-Centered Computing (Not…)

Human-centered computing should be–but is not today–about connecting all humans with all information in near-real-time, while providing back office tools that elevate the human brain and more properly plan information and communications technologies in a support role.  See for example our Citizen-Centered Graphics and all of the OSS/EIN Books.  Where the emergent meme is off-target …

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Dave Warner

Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Dave Warner, “Rapid Fire: Location, Location, Location” Dave Warner  MindTel ARCH Synergist http://projects.mindtel.com Dave Warner is a Medical Neuroscientist and the Director of Medical Intelligence at MindTel. His interests include interventional informatics, medical communications, distributed medical intelligence, biosensors, quantitative human performance, expressional interface systems and physio-informatics. He has been engaged in …

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Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Stuart Umpleby

Stuart Anspach Umpleby (born March 5, 1944) is an American cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington University. He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC). In 2007 Stuart …

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Worth a Look: SIPRI 10 June Taking Stock

FULL SOURCE ONLINE About Dr. Bates Gill (US), New and seventh Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Intitute Most interesting sentence: The number of civilians mandated for roles in United Nations missions has increased, as has the number of multilateral civilian peace missions. Yet, the international community’s record in strengthening civilian capacities in peace operations is …

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Journal: United Nations and Information-Sharing

UPDATED 2014-01-29 to add the following new links: 2012 Robert Steele: Practical Reflections on UN Intelligence + UN RECAP References: NATO Transformation Process Documents — and Gaps + Peace from Above RECAP Search: phd topics on the role of intelligence in peace support operation + Peacekeeping RECAP United Nations @ Phi Beta Iota Phi Beta …

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