Thought Leaders

3.5 Thought Leaders

3.5.1 Creative Education Foundation

CEF is a non-profit membership of leaders in the discipline of creativity theory and practice. Our members advocate and demonstrate the application of deliberate creativity to those who might benefit from our unique approaches to solving problems and generating opportunities

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3.5.2 David Cooperidder - Appreciative Inquiry

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3.5.3 Douglas Engelbart

Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor, of Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, and is a pioneer of human-computer interaction, including GUIs, hypertext, and networked computers.

Engelbart received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1948, a Bachelor of Engineering degree from UC Berkeley in 1952, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1955.

As a World War II radio tech based in the Philippines, Engelbart was inspired by Vannevar Bush's article 'As We May Think'. After the war, following his inspiration, Engelbart quit his job as an engineer, and studied at UC Berkeley, where he got a PhD in 1955, and worked on the earliest version of the Internet, called the ARPANet. Engelbart was the primary force behind the design of the Stanford Research Institute's On-Line System, or NLS. He and his team at the Augmentation Research Center developed computer-interface elements such as bit- mapped screens, multiple windows, groupware, and the graphical user interface. He developed many of his user interface ideas back in 1968, long before the personal computer revolution. He never received any royalties for his mouse invention.

In 1995 (or 1996?) he was awarded the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award. In 1997 he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize, and the Turing Award. In 2001 he was awarded a British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal. He continues (at age 78 in 2003) to work at the Bootstrap Institute, which he founded.

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3.5.4 Elinor Ostrom

Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science
Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Part-Time
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change
(CIPEC)
Phone: (812) 855-0441
ostrom@indiana.edu

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3.5.5 George Por

3.5.6 Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson [1904 - 1980] - Anthropologist, Social Scientist, Cyberneticist - known as Gregory - was one of the most important social scientists of this century. Strongly opposing those scientists who attempted to ‘reduce’ everything to mere matter, he was intent upon the task of re-introducing ‘Mind’ back into the scientific equations - writing two famous books Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and Mind & Nature as part of this task. From his point of view Mind is a constituent part of ‘material reality’ and it is thus nonsensical to try to split mind from matter. Before being championed by the counter-culture of the 1960’s Bateson had been busy in the 20’s and 30’s as an anthropologist in Bali, and in helping to found the science of cybernetics among many other things. Adopted by many thinkers in the anti- psychiatry movement because he provided a model and a new epistemology for developing a novel understanding of human madness, and also for his invention of the theory of the double bind.

He helped to elaborate the science of cybernetics with colleagues Warren McCulloch, Gordon Pask, Ross Ashby, Heinz von Foerster, Norbert Wiener, etc. He inspired several different models and approaches in the area of psychotherapy, notably that of the MRI Interactional school of Weakland, Jackson, and Watzlawick, and many other later schools of family therapy [including that of the Milan school of Palazzoli], and he directly influenced family therapists such as Brad Keeney, Tom Andersen, Lynn Hoffman and many others.

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http://www.oikos.org/baten.htm