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{{Short description|Swedish systems scientist}}
'''Kjell Samuelson''' (1932–4 February 2018) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[systems scientist]], Sci-Tech [[consultant]], Professor Emeritus at the [[Stockholm University]] and [[Royal Institute of Technology]], and a pioneer of [[Systems Science]] & [[Cybernetics]], [[Communications]] & Informatics Technology and Global Networks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://archive-ifsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Samuelson-Kjell-Obituary-2018-02-25.pdf |title=Dr. Kjell Samuelson (1932-2018) |last=Reckmeyer |first=William J. |date=24 February 2018 |website=San José State University |access-date=24 January 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=24 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124155624/http://archive-ifsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Samuelson-Kjell-Obituary-2018-02-25.pdf }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Samuelson held dual Doctors degrees. During four decades he was a distinguished professor at the [[Stockholm University]] and the [[Royal Institute of Technology]], where he launched the first graduate education and doctoral program in Informatics & Systems Science including Cybernetics and Networks. He was further a professor of Information Science, Computers, Systems Engineering, Safety & Security, and General Resource Management at a dozen North American Universities.<ref name= "CON07">[http://www.keylab-imie.org/confenis2007/programs/ks.aspx Prof. Kjell Samuelson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012135644/http://www.keylab-imie.org/confenis2007/programs/ks.aspx |date=2008-10-12 }}. Keynote Speakers at the Confenis 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2008.</ref>

For several years he was an international Sci-Tech advisor to industries and corporations on large-scale management, organizational redesign, and investments for functional development of new infrastructures. He worked as high-level consultant to UNESCO, OECD, UNITAR, ASEAN, UNIDO etc. on regional development. He was past-president in 1975 of the [[Society for General Systems Research]], now International Systems Science Society, and has fulfilled chair functions of professional consortia and associations such as SGSR, IFIP, ASIS, IEEE, FISCIT, ITCA, ASC, INSIST.<ref name= "CON07"/>

== Work ==
Samuelson conducted R & D globally on Total Systems, TeleCom, Satellites, Systems Architecture, Enterprise Planning and Management Structures.<ref name= "CON07"/>

== Publications ==
* 1968. ''Mechanized information storage, retrieval and dissemination''. Proceedings of the F.I.D./I.F.I.P. joint conference, Rome, June 14–17, 1967. Edited by Kjell Samuelson.
* 1969. ''Automated international information networks''. Systems design concepts, goal-setting and priorities. FID/TM Panel at the ASIS meeting in San Francisco, 2 October 1969.
* 1972. ''Systems, cybernetics and information networks''. by K. Samuelson ... [et al.]. Compiled by FID/TM, Stockholm, Sweden.
* 1976. ''Information and data in systems''. With [[Börje Langefors]]. New York : Petrocelli/Charter.
* 1976. ''Information systems and networks : design and planning guidelines of informatics for managers, decision makers and systems analysts.'' With Harold Borko and G. X. Amey. Amsterdam : North-Holland Pub. Co.
* 1978. ''Informatics by general systems and cybernetics : a structured methodology for design, anasynthesis, and usage''. Stockholm : The Royal Institute of Technology.

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