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.

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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 .