Kjell Samuelson (1932–4 February 2018) was a

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systems scientist, Sci-Tech

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, Professor Emeritus at the

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and

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, and a pioneer of Systems Science &

Cybernetics Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...

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& Informatics Technology and Global Networks.

Biography

Samuelson held dual Doctors degrees. During four decades he was a distinguished professor at the

and the

, where he launched the first graduate education and doctoral program in Informatics & Systems Science including Cybernetics and Networks. He was further a professor of Information Science, Computers, Systems Engineering, Safety & Security, and General Resource Management at a dozen North American Universities.Prof. Kjell Samuelson
. Keynote Speakers at the Confenis 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2008. For several years he was an international Sci-Tech advisor to industries and corporations on large-scale management, organizational redesign, and investments for functional development of new infrastructures. He worked as high-level consultant to UNESCO, OECD, UNITAR, ASEAN, UNIDO etc. on regional development. He was past-president in 1975 of the

Society for General Systems Research The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) is a worldwide organization for systems sciences. The overall purpose of the ISSS is: :"to promote the development of conceptual frameworks based on general system theory, as well as their ...

, now International Systems Science Society, and has fulfilled chair functions of professional consortia and associations such as SGSR, IFIP, ASIS, IEEE, FISCIT, ITCA, ASC, INSIST.

Work

Samuelson conducted R & D globally on Total Systems, TeleCom, Satellites, Systems Architecture, Enterprise Planning and Management Structures.

Publications

* 1968. ''Mechanized information storage, retrieval and dissemination''. Proceedings of the F.I.D./I.F.I.P. joint conference, Rome, June 14–17, 1967. Edited by Kjell Samuelson. * 1969. ''Automated international information networks''. Systems design concepts, goal-setting and priorities. FID/TM Panel at the ASIS meeting in San Francisco, 2 October 1969. * 1972. ''Systems, cybernetics and information networks''. by K. Samuelson ...

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Compiled by FID/TM, Stockholm, Sweden. * 1976. ''Information and data in systems''. With

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. New York : Petrocelli/Charter. * 1976. ''Information systems and networks : design and planning guidelines of informatics for managers, decision makers and systems analysts.'' With Harold Borko and G. X. Amey. Amsterdam : North-Holland Pub. Co. * 1978. ''Informatics by general systems and cybernetics : a structured methodology for design, anasynthesis, and usage''. Stockholm : The Royal Institute of Technology.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Samuelson, Kjell 1932 births 2018 deaths Swedish computer scientists Information systems researchers Systems scientists Academic staff of Stockholm University Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Presidents of the International Society for the Systems Sciences