Papers in French and English. Includes -- Seance Solennelle d'ouverture; PRINCIPES ET METHODES de la CYBERNETIQUE - Principles & Methods of Cybernetics - La Revolution cybernetique; Le concept d'information - ses possibilies, ses limites; Operational Research & cybernetics (Stafford Beer); Essal d'une definition generale de la cybernetique (Louis Couffignal); Codificaiton des connaissances; Interet des machines semantiques pour la documentaion dana les sciences et Applic. de la theorie de l'information a la transmission des signaux vocaux et visuels; Transmission codee des signaux autoregressifs lineaires; Logique et cybernetique; Cybernetique et philosophie; More.

LES MACHINES SEMANTIQUES - Semantic Machines - UNIVAC Programming with compilers (C. Hammer); La codification des informations dans l'ordinateur IBM type 650; Machine a calculer electronique ultra-rapide de type parallele; Application de l'Univac Fac-Tronic et des calculateur de capacite moyenne; A White Noise Generator for the band 0-20 c/s; A Possible Classification of Machines (Tomovic); Une simplification de la theorie de Turing (Porte); MORE;

L'AUTOMATION - Automation - L'automatisation des instruments astronomiques; Automata of High Complexity & Methods of Increasing their reliability by redundancy (Lofgren); A technical consideration of the cybernetic analogue for planning & programming (Beer); The impact of cybernetics on the concept of industrial organization; Automatic inspection; the anatomy of concious machines (sargrove); Automation Trends in the United States & Europe; MORE;

LA CYBERNETIQUE ET LA VIE - CYbernetics & Life - The regulation of movement & polar organisation in amoeba by intracellular feedback (Goldacre); Genes, Virus et cybernetique (Martin); A theory of the mechanism of learning based on computation of conditional probabilities (Uttley); Frontieres de la cybernetique (David); MORE.
Participants included Louis Couffignal, W. Grey Walter, and Stafford Beer.

FUNCTIONAL CAUSALITY -- progressive organization; facing a blank wall; the uncertainties of causality; the effect as a function; the law & the field; the enchanted field of the lady variables; Does Chance exist; the probability of effects; when the causal chains fuse; a definition of probability; ANTI-CHANCE -- the important concept of Clinamen; law of twofold function; Eddington's views on anti-chance; When the cause is part of the effect; contingency, determinism, organization; the establishment of order; essential laws & existential laws; an image of the universe; entropy & anatropy; SYNTHETIC ANIMALS - subtle behavior; secrets of the tortoises; a principle of life - the economy of means; THE USE OF MODELS - the 'animal-machine' of descartes; Condillac's statue and Grey Walter's tortoises; the tropism of the tortoise; The Chess Player of Torres y Quevedo; An essential concept - the Unpredictable; why should the problem not be equally simple; the art of compromise; the learning box;

CALCULATING MACHINES -- the principles of calculating machines; addition by electrical impulses; Binary system - the logical language; the way of the Mind and the way of the Machine; the first american revolution; in the land of Descartes; the 'memory' unit; Electronic Brains;

THE MECHANISMS OF ANTICIPATION AND MEMORY -- where feedback is powerless; has Cybernetics many practical applications; the intellectual operation of anti-aircraft defense; a parallel between a gun and a man; Mechanical Reasoning; Machines without men; memory and logic; the Machine which teaches itself; ASHBY'S HOMEOSTAT AND FIFTH DEGREE OF AUTOMATION -- Walter Cannon & homeostasis; a mechanism that is like no other; spare 'Determinisms'; the machine which finds its own way; artificial education; the machine that receives punishment; Design for a Brain; towards machine government;

AT THE LEVEL OF HUMAN FUNCTIONS -- the Multistat, or multiple goal-seeking machine; equilibrium, the ultimate goal; the Organism integrates what it perceives; machina liberata; integration of the machine ssen from the temporal aspect; a model of nervous function; the machine is something else; where certain words are meaningless; THE HIGHEST DEGREES OF AUTOMATISM -- does matter arise out of the Void; the qualities of freedom; between probability and certainty; the logic of effects Anti-Chance; Synthetic Animals; The use of Models, more; Calculating Machines; The Mechanisms of Anticipation & Memory; Ashby's Homeostat & Fifth Degree of Automatism; MORE;