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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Gordon Pask, Philip Tew, Steve Dixon, Robert Istepanian, Malcolm Wicks, Alan Smithers, Celia Brayfield, Kefah Mokbel, Michael Fourman, John Large, James Plaskitt, Marie Jahoda, Peter James Thomas, Igor Aleksander, Heinz Wolff, Robert D. Macredie, Steve Jackson, Christopher Fox, Adam Kuper, Mark Harman, Steve Woolgar, Keith Hopkins, John Crank, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, John Morrison, John Sumpter, Saeed Vaseghi, Stanley O. Gaines. Excerpt: Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (June 28, 1928 in Derby - March 29, 1996 London) was an English cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology. Pask was born in Derby, England in 1928. After qualifying precociously as a Mining Engineer at Liverpool Polytechnic, now Liverpool John Moores University, Pask obtained an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge in 1952 and a PhD in Psychology from the University of London in 1964. Whilst Visiting Professor of Educational Technology he obtained the first DSc from the Open University. From the sixties Pask directed commercial research at System Research Ltd in Richmond, Surrey and his partnership, Pask Associates, near Clapham Common during the eighties and nineties. Pask held faculty positions at Brunel University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Concordia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Oregon, and University of Amsterdam. In 1968 Gordon Pask and his pupil Roy Ascott were elected Associate Member of the Institution of Computer Science, London. In 1974 he was elected president of the Society for General Systems Research, now the International Society for Systems Science. Pask was chairman of the Cybernetics Society from 1...
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