A Brief History of the BCL: Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory / Muller, Albert

In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften. - Roč. 11, č. 1, s. 9-30.

I am attempting a preliminary interpretation of a small and, as I believe, unusual chapter of the history of science from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, one that has received little attention up to now. And I am equally motivated by the fact that the BCL has very seldom been mentioned2 in the literature on the history of cybernetics, systems theory, bionics (now the subject of renewed debate), parallel computing, neurophysiology, bio-logic, artificial intelligence, symbolic computing, or constructivism as an intellectual tradition—and it would be possible to list even more areas of science that are renowned today—despite the fact that workers at this institution, the BCL, figure importantly in the literature on each of these domains.

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