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3 unusual facts about Anthony Stafford Beer


Anthony Stafford Beer

In the 1980s he established a second home on the west side of downtown Toronto and lived part of the year in both residences.

The system used a network of about 500 telex machines located at enterprises throughout the country and in government offices in Santiago, some of which were connected to a government-operated mainframe computer that would receive information on production operations, feed that information into economic modeling software, and report on variables (such as raw material supplies) that were outside normal parameters and might require attention.

Beer had five sons and three daughters, one of whom is Vanilla Beer, an artist and essayist.


Systems theory

Important names in contemporary systems science include Russell Ackoff, Béla H. Bánáthy, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Robert L. Flood, Fritjof Capra, Michael C. Jackson, Edgar Morin and Werner Ulrich, among others.


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