<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">To All ASC Members and Friends: </div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">The announcement below from the ASC’s President Michael Lissack and includes important information about our 2020 ASC Conference, to be held in Moscow in September. Email Michael if you have any questions. </div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">Best, </div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">Art Collings</div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">ASC Treasurer </div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><b class="">Invitation to Contribute to the 2020 ASC Conference </b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><b class="">September 15-19, Moscow</b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"></p><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><b class="">NOTE January 31 Critical Date</b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">ASC will be holding its 2020 meeting in Moscow as a co-located event with WOSC. See <a href="http://wosc2020.org/" style="color: blue;" class="">http://wosc2020.org</a>. One theme will be “Philosophical and methodological foundations for the development of the systems approach and cybernetics” and another will be “Systems science, cybernetics and art.” </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">WOSC asks for 250-500 word Abstracts to be submitted by January 31. See <a href="https://www.wosc2020.org/authorsguide" style="color: blue;" class="">https://www.wosc2020.org/authorsguide</a>. You submit by opening an account at <a href="https://wosc2020.ipu.ru/user/register" style="color: blue;" class="">https://wosc2020.ipu.ru/user/register</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">It is critical that you submit something by the January 31 deadline even if you are unsure about your attendance. ASC is NOT in charge of the WOSC portion of the event and we are powerless to get you an exception re the dates. There will translators and a large audience during the WOSC portion of the event. There will be no translators and only an intimate audience during the ASC controlled 3 hour ASC event. Thus, if you want your contribution to have maximal impact you need to comply with the WOSC January 31 deadline. You can always decide later not to attend. </span><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">please see the attached</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Michael Lissack </b></font></div><div class=""><div class="">14 Stratford Rd Marblehead MA 01945 phone 617-710-9565</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><a href="http://lissack.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">http://lissack.com</a></span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Michael is the President of the American Society for Cybernetics, Executive Director Emeritus of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence and Professor of Design and Innovation at Tongji University,Shanghai.</span><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><a href="http://isce.edu/" target="_blank" class=""></a></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>