Charles François (systems scientist) Cybernetics Sciences)Honorary President of the Latin American Association of Systemics (ALAS), Honorary Professor of ITBA, Buenos Aires, and was visiting Professor at various universities and educational institutions in Argentina, Perú and Brasil. He became a member of systemic boards and integrated the editorial boards of various journals on Systems and Cybernetics. In 2007 he received from the American Society for Cybernetics, the Norbert Wiener golden medal as a tribute for his work on cybernetics. In 1952 François came in contact with cybernetics through Norbert Wiener's "Cybernetics". In 1958 he joined the Society for General Systems Research now the International Society
Giovanni Forni (mathematician) American Mathematical Society. Giovanni Forni (mathematician) Giovanni Forni is an Italian mathematician at the University of Maryland known for his research in dynamical systems. After graduating from the University of Bologna in 1989, he obtained his PhD in 1993 from Princeton University, under the supervision of John Mather. He was an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. For his work on solutions of cohomological equations for flows on surfaces, and on the Kontsevich–Zorich conjecture concerning deviation of ergodic averages, he was awarded the 2008 Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems. In 2012, he became a