Thursday, April 15, p.m. Room 50

Symposium Q: History of Cybernetics, Information Technology, and Systems Research
F. Pichler, Austria, and E.-G.Woschni, Germany

14:00-14:30
Heinrich Barkhausen - Pioneer of Weak-Current and Electronic Engineering
E.-G. Woschni, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
14:30-15:00
From Rossum's Universal Robots to the Post-Human
J. Horakova, J. Kelemen, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
15:00-15:30
Some Historical Comments upon a Kantian Outline for the Conception of the Universal System
E. Selzer, Austrian Society for the History of Informatics, Austria
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
System Dynamics within the Evolution of the Systems Movement
M. Schwaninger, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
16:30-17:00
Hydrointegrator by Mihaila Petrovic-Alas. A Contribution to the Design of Computing Machines
M.S. Stankovic, M. Stankovic, University of Nis, Serbia