Bio Note: Larry Richards is currently Professor of Management and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana. He previously held positions as Founding Chair of the Department of Engineering Management at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, and Founding Dean of the School of Management and Aviation Science at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts. He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics and the American Society for Engineering Management, where he became a Fellow in 2002. His current research interests include the integration of cognitive and computational perspectives on decision making, the organization and presentation of information in policy support systems, the implications of dialectical/ dialogic approaches to social design and transformation, and the role of “time” in everyday thought and action.

Affiliation: Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana, USA

Homepage: http://www.iue.edu/people/bio/bio.php?bio=laudrich