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| If you have an early story to share, please send it to Roberta to post on this website. We envisage this site as a collective memoir that provides a brief, but informative chronological as well as intellectual history of how the Society came to be. |
As part of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the field of System Dynamics being celebrated in the summer of 2007 in Boston, we intend to create a type of oral history of the founding of the System Dynamics Society (which took place just about 25 years ago). We have asked some people to participate to "get the ball rolling," but all are welcome to share their stories in this project.
Thank you. David Andersen, John Morecroft and Roberta Spencer
Precursor conference-related events—the 1981 Conference in Rensselaerville
by David Andersen, John Morecroft and Roberta Spencer
The 1976 International Conference on System Dynamics— Geilo
by
Jorgen Randers
From Dynamica to the System Dynamics Review
by Eric Wolstenholme
The Early Years: A Voluntary Effort
by Michael J. Radzicki
MIT D-Memos and System Dynamics Newsletters
by Jay W. Forrester
The Origin of Our Constitution
by Jack Pugh
System Dynamics Beginnings – Some Recollections
by Khalid Saeed
Early Developments of the System Dynamics Venture
by Michel Karsky
and Bernard Paulré
The Founding of the System Dynamics Review
by George P. Richardson
A Brief and Incomplete History of Operational Gaming in System Dynamics
by Dennis Meadows
Making System Dynamics Useful
by Edward B. Roberts
The First Executive Director, Julie Pugh, and
the transition from a voluntary enterprise
by Roberta Spencer
Other History Documents:
Morecroft, John (1983A). “ Report on the 1983 International System Dynamics Conference, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, July 27-30, 1983”, D-3482, MIT System Dynamics Group, Cambridge MA.
Morecroft, John (1983B). Archive documents from an early meeting of the Society’s Executive Committee on 28th November 1983.
Memo and proposal from John Morecroft to 1981 Rensselaerville Conference participants on "Interest Group on Conference Continuity and Proefessional Society," with welcome note to conference participants by Roberta Spencer
1976 Geilo, Norway Conference Photo with key to "who is who," donated by Brian Dangerfield
List of First Officers (1983-1984)