Editing Heinz von Foerster (section)

===Macy conferences===
He was the youngest member of the core group of the [[Macy conferences]] on Cybernetics and editor of the five volumes of ''Cybernetics'' (1949–1953), a series of conference transcripts that represent important foundational conversations in the field. It was von Foerster who suggested that Wiener's coinage "[[Cybernetics]]" be applied to this conference series, which had previously been called "Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems".