A Cybernetic Salon with Paul Pangaro, arranged by students of the Interaction Design Program of the California College of Arts, San Francisco, March 2018
Cybernetics then Conversation — 2 lectures for Mapping and Visualization Design course, School of Visual Arts MFA program Design for Social Innovation, December 2014
Goals, Interaction and Interfaces, condensed notes from presentation to an audience of designers at AOL, Netscape and Compuserve for their Design Summit, December 1999
Tribute to Heinz von Foerster, presentation given at the 1995 Meeting of the American Society of Cybernetics in honor of von Foerster, Chicago, April 1995
Critique of Action Technologies' "Business Process Methodology", April 1994
Why The CEO Chooses Not To
Listen: Information, Reliability And Decision Making In Corporations (Walter Lee and Paul Pangaro), Working Paper commissioned by Du Pont, November 1993
"The Bauhaus, the Colloquy of Mobiles, and the Meaning of Interaction", co-authored with Karen Kornblum Berntsen, in Bauhaus Futures, Forlano, Steenson, & Ananny (eds.), MIT Press, 2019
"Capture / Curate </> Touch / Play: Reality is the New Fiction 2014", co-authored with Claudine Boeglin, printed in Vision Anew: The Lens & Screen Arts, edited by Adam Bell & Charles H. Traub, University of California Press, 2015
"Planning and implementing conversation-led marketing", co-authored with Hagen Wenzek in Applied Marketing Analytics, Henry Stewart Publications, Volume One, Number Three, Summer 2015
Brief History of the Gordon Pask North American Archive, in Gordon Pask, Philosopher Mechanic, an Introduction to the Cybernetician's Cybernetician, edited by Glanville and Müller, edition echoraumWisdom Series, Vienna, 2007
Notes on the Role of Leadership and Language in Regenerating Organizations, collaboration with Michael Geoghegan, Hugh Dubberly, Peter Esmonde, produced for Sun Microsystems, 2002
Cybernetics and Conversation, or, Conversation Theory in Two Pages, published in Communication and Anti-communication, American Society for Cybernetics, May 1996
Beyond Menus, a proposal for innovation in user interface design, presented at the Harvard Computer Graphics Week, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1982
Gordon Pask PDFs, a collection of papers and materials on Pask's work, including Conversation Theory
Designing for Conversation, models and prescriptions for improving participation and effectiveness in marketing and product/service design, from early 2009
Survey of user interaction design concepts and implementations, 1982 to present
Architecture of Conversations: Interpretation of Pask's Conversation Theory framework as published in Negroponte's Soft Architecture Machines (MIT Press 1976)
American Institute of Graphic
Arts/MIT Media Lab, December 1994. A review of “infrastructure”construed as the context in which business takes place, and its transformation
due to “costless switching”, i.e., information technology of all kinds
Workflow and Evolution of the Corporation, MIT Center for Coordination Science, November 1994. Consideration of the meaning of “enterprise-wide computing” and workflow in the context of the evolution of the corporation
Design for Conversations/Conversations for Design, May 1992. Written and produced for Du Pont, this seminar used MIT laboratories as a context for expounding the relationship between “citizen” and “producer”, and the critical role of information technology at the core of all business in the “new commerce”
Awards
The Warren McCulloch Award, for outstanding and profound lifelong contributions to the nurturing of cybernetics, American Society for Cybernetics, 2014.
Cine Golden Eagle, with N. Max and E. Millet, for “Regular Homotopies in the Plane”, Part I and Part II, Newton, MA, 1973 & 1974.
MIT Stewart Award, for outstanding contributions to extracurricular activities made to the MIT Drama Program, Cambridge, MA, 1974.
Finalist in Acting, University Resident Theatre Association, 1973
Proposals
Groupware and Corporate Repositories: A Proposal for Leveraging Intellectual Capital. Combing the intelligence of human agents and the complexity handling of software agents to create a new level of personalized, knowledge-based systems, 1994
New Order from Old—The Rise of Second-order Cybernetics and Implications for Machine Intelligence, lengthy review of cybernetics written as a performance piece and from a personal perspective.
