Gerrit Blaauw vs. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gerrit Blaauw
1924 – 2018
Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.
"The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as …"
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
1901 – 1972
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields. Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things.
"We find systems which by their very nature and definition are not closed systems. Every living organism is essentially an open system. It maintains itself in a …"
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