Norman and Bernie Zeigler at AIS'2000 Banquet
Bernie Zeigler celebrated his 60th birthday at the AIS'2000 conference
in Tucson, Arizona. At the conference he recived a special award from
the Simulation Society. I was his second doctoral student when he was a
fresh assistant prof in Michigan. Already, he had very profound ideas
about systems theory. I absorbed as much as I could from him, then set
out on my path. In the years since, our intellectual paths have
re-crossed many times. My paper with Bernie ("Emergence and
Computation", in the IJGS) is regarded by a founder of AI, Prof Donald
Michie, as one of the most insightful ones in systems science. It
was not part of my doctoral work, but was the result of discussions I
had with Bernie many years later when I visited Ann Arbor.