Fernando Flores
Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943 in Talca , Chile ) is a Chilean politician , engineer and philosopher.
Flores was the technical director of the operations nationalized under Salvador Allende . In collaboration with Stafford Beer , he tried to introduce scientific administration and organization techniques based on the latest cybernetic knowledge in the Chilean economic management through the Cybersyn project . Due to the success of the project, he became Minister of Finance.
Shortly afterwards, Augusto Pinochet put forward ; Flores was held in a camp from 1973 to 1976. With the support of Amnesty International , he was able to emigrate with his family to Palo Alto ( California ).
He worked with Hubert Dreyfus , Stuart Dreyfus, John Searle and Ann Markussen and had success as a computer scientist. He further developed his ideas of philosophy and work organization and was influenced by Martin Heidegger , Humberto Maturana and John Langshaw Austin . Together with the American computer scientist Terry Winograd , he wrote a book in 1986 in which both approaches criticized the emerging artificial intelligence .
After his return to Chile, he was Senator of the provinces of Arica-Parinacota and Tarapacá for the social democratic Partido por la Democracia (PPD) from 2001 to 2009 . At the end of 2004 he tried - without success - to become the PPD candidate for the office of Chilean President. In 2010 he became an advisor to the newly elected President Sebastián Piñera .
Fonts
- with Terry Winograd: Understanding computers and cognition: a new foundation of design, Ablex Pub., 1986
References
- ^ Philippe Rivière: The state as a machine. In: Le Monde diplomatique . November 12, 2010, accessed August 13, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flores, Fernando |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flores Labra, Carlos Fernando (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean politician, engineer and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Talca , Chile |