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He was born in Jersey City USA, on 28th April, 1919 and graduated with a BSc, from the City University of New York in 1938 in the major subjects of mathematics and chemistry. Whilst at Columbia University, New York, he completed an MA in philosophy in 1947 and a PhD in 1951 for his thesis in symbolic logic.
Cyberneticians and systemists are already aware of the many prestigious and demanding posts that he held during his working life. He was, for example:
The chairman of the first international conference on bio-simulation, with W.S. McCulloch and Ross Asby, Locano 1960. (The proceedings were published in 1962 under the title Aspects of the Theory of Artificial Intelligence, 1962, with a second edition published in 1966, by Plenum Press, New York).
He co-lectured with Norbert Wiener under NATO sponsorship at the School of Theoretical Physics at the University of Naples in 1962 and was requested by the Italian government's National Research Council to write Wiener's official obituary in 1964 after the...