British cybernetician and psychologist (1928–1996)
Gordon Pask
Born
28 June 1928
Derby
Died
29 March 1996 (aged 67)
London
Nationality
British
Alma mater
University of Cambridge University of London Open University
Known for
Conversation theory Interactions of actors theory
Awards
Wiener Gold Medal (1984)
Scientific career
Fields
Cybernetics Psychology
Institutions
Brunel University University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Concordia University Georgia Institute of Technology Architectural Association
Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made during his lifetime multiple contributions to cybernetics, educational psychology, educational technology, epistemology, chemical computing, architecture, and the performing arts. During his life he gained three doctorate degrees. He was an avid writer, with more than two hundred and fifty publications which included a variety of journal articles, books, periodicals, patents, and technical reports (many of which can be found at the main Pask archive at the University of Vienna).[Footnote 1] He also worked as an academic and researcher for a variety of educational settings, research institutes, and private stakeholders including but not limited to the University of Illinois, Concordia University, the Open University, Brunel University and the Architectural Association School of Architecture.[1][2] He is known for the development of conversation theory.
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Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made during his lifetime multiple contributions...
emergence of knowledge between participants. The theory was developed by GordonPask, who credits Bernard Scott, Dionysius Kallikourdis, Robin McKinnon-Wood...
Pask may refer to; Alun Pask (1937–1995), British rugby union player Andrew Pask, epigeneticist Andy Pask (born 1955), English bass player and composer...
of actors theory is a theory developed by GordonPask and Gerard de Zeeuw. It is a generalisation of Pask's earlier conversation theory: The chief distinction...
and the machine. Wiener's early work was on noise. The cybernetician GordonPask held that the error that drives a servomechanism can be seen as a difference...
influence each other Interactions of actors theory, created by cybernetician GordonPask Fundamental interaction or fundamental force, the core interactions in...
supernova, a subtype of Type I supernova Interactions of actors theory, by GordonPask Internal affairs (disambiguation) Intermediate in Arts, an academic degree...
depends on the translation of meaning. "Conversation theory", proposed by GordonPask in the 1970s, identifies a framework to explain how scientific theory...
of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, GordonPask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was a biologist...
machines with gamification features were developed by cyberneticist GordonPask from 1956 onwards, after he was granted a patent for an "Apparatus for...
John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, GordonPask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others...
drum stick), the evolution of cybernetic science from Norbert Wiener to GordonPask, Heinz von Foerster, and Autopoiesis, and in related fields such as Autocatalysis...
Eucrates was a hybrid teaching and learning analog computer created by GordonPask in 1956, in response to a request by the Solartron Electronic Group for...
and his younger brother was the well-known cybernetics researcher, GordonPask. Pask attended Rydal School, a Methodist boarding school in North Wales...
unrealised Fun Palace project (London, unrealised, 1964 onwards), where GordonPask was consultant to architect Cedric Price and theatre director Joan Littlewood...
machines and installations were a very noticeable part of the exhibition. GordonPask produced a collection of large mobiles (Colloquy of Mobiles (1968)) with...
The classes took place in 1953, while in 1956, Robin McKinnon Wood and GordonPask released the first adaptive teaching system for corporate environments...
notable contributors to the conceptual development of the field include: GordonPask, who offered "a paradigm for an intelligent environment that not only...
Instrument, which are somewhat ad hoc and so are little used at present. GordonPask (Carey, 1991) extended these notions in a discussion of strategies and...
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