Lars Löfgren Explained

Lars Löfgren (1925 – 2013^[1]) was a Swedish cybernetician. He was awarded the Wiener Gold Medal by the American Society for Cybernetics in 2008.^[2]

Lars Löfgren was involved in extending the logical and linguistic approaches to various problems raised by early cybernetics. His work helpeddevelop a more consistent conceptual base for cybernetics through a holistic approach to second order cybernetics.^[2]

He was one of the internationally renown cyberneticians invited by Heinz von Förster to the Biological Computer Laboratory,^[3] but he did most of his work while professor at Lund University.

Works

• (1996) "Shadows of language in physics and cybernetics", Systems Research, 13(3), 329–340.
• (2002) "What is systems science?" in Robert Trappl (Ed.), Cybernetics and systems 2002 (Vol. 1, pp. 11–16). Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johannesson. Kruzela. In memoriam - E-sektionens förste professor Lars Löfgren (1925-2013). 2024-05-09.
2. Web site: Kauffman. Louis H.. American Society for Cybernetics award. American Society for Cybernetics. American Society for Cybernetics. 20 January 2018.
3. Web site: The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics by Heinz Von Foerster, 2014 . 2018-01-20 . 2018-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180121071252/https://www.questia.com/library/120081345/the-beginning-of-heaven-and-earth-has-no-name-seven . dead .