http://www.isss.org/world/en/20071130-isss-madison-2008-conference-announcement Comments for "2008/06/29 ISSS Madison 2008 CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE" en http://www.isss.org/world/en/20071130-isss-madison-2008-conference-announcement <p><img width="650" height="264" alt="" src="/world/en/system/files/images/isss_banner_500x203.jpg" />&nbsp;</p> <h3>Program / Schedule Available&nbsp; <a href="http://isss.org/world/en/madison-2008-conference-program-and-schedule"> Schedule</a></h3> <p><em>ISSS2008: Systems that Make a Difference</em></p> <p>Location: University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin</p> <p>The title for this conference borrows from Gregory Bateson&rsquo;s definition of information as &ldquo;a difference that makes a difference.&rdquo; The question for systems researchers and practitioners is, &ldquo;what difference are we making?&rdquo;</p> <p>For more information see the <a href="http://isss.org/world/en/madison-2008">Madison 2008</a> main page, and the <a href="http://isss.org/world/en/madison-2008-conference-announcement">Madison 2008 Conference Announcement</a></p> <h3><a id="plenary_guest_speakers" name="plenary_guest_speakers">Confirmed Plenary Guest Speakers</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.botany.wisc.edu/allen/bio.htm">Timothy F. H. Allen</a>, President-elect, ISSS (2009) and Professor, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin</li> <li><a href="http://www.zoology.wisc.edu/faculty/Car/Car.html">Steve Carpenter</a>, Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin</li> <li><a href="http://www.nc.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=6872">Manfred Drack</a>, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, Austria</li> <li><a href="http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/foley/foley.html">Jon Foley</a>, Professor, Department of Sustainability and Global Environment, University of Wisconsin</li> <li><a href="http://davidhawk.com/">David L. Hawk</a>, Dean of the School of Management and Faculty in the New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology</li> <li><a href="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/background/?mcdavid">Doug McDavid</a>, Executive Research Consultant, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA</li> <li><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/syndemics/contact.htm">Bobby Milstein</a>, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/syndemics/index.htm">Syndemics Prevention Network</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=wr2">Bill Rouse</a>, Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in the College of Computing. Also, Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) 2006 and recipient of the IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and 2006</li> <li><a href="http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/display_profile.php?name=Schwartz%2C+David+C.">David Schwartz</a>, Professor, Chemistry and Genetics, University of Wisconsin</li> <li><a href="http://www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/popmed/ecosys/index.html">David Waltner-Toews</a>, Professor, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph and founding president of the <a href="http://www.nesh.ca/">Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hull.ac.uk/hubs/people/staff/wilby_j.html">Jennifer Wilby</a>, Director of the Centre for Systems Studies and faculty member in Management Systems at the University of Hull, UK</li> </ul> http://www.isss.org/world/en/20071130-isss-madison-2008-conference-announcement#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:56:53 +0000 News 210 at http://www.isss.org/world