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ISSS2008: Systems that Make a Difference

Location: University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin

The title for this conference borrows from Gregory Bateson’s definition of information as “a difference that makes a difference.” The question for systems researchers and practitioners is, “what difference are we making?”

For more information see the Madison 2008 [2] main page, and the Madison 2008 Conference Announcement [3]

Timothy F. H. Allen [4], President-elect, ISSS (2009) and Professor, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin

Steve Carpenter [5], Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin

Manfred Drack [6], Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, Austria

Jon Foley [7], Professor, Department of Sustainability and Global Environment, University of Wisconsin

David L. Hawk [8], Dean of the School of Management and Faculty in the New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Doug McDavid [9], Executive Research Consultant, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

Bobby Milstein [10], US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Syndemics Prevention Network [11]

Bill Rouse [12], 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

David Schwartz [13], Professor, Chemistry and Genetics, University of Wisconsin

David Waltner-Toews [14], Professor, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph and founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health [15]

Jennifer Wilby [16], Director of the Centre for Systems Studies and faculty member in Management Systems at the University of Hull, UK