Professor Thomas Marlowe has been a member of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Seton Hall University for almost 40 years, and has taught a wide variety of courses in both disciplines. Until he went on phased retirement in 2017, he was coordinator and advisor for the Computer Science program. Professor Marlowe enjoys working with students and with professional colleagues—almost all his research is collaborative. His professional interests include in mathematics, abstract algebra and discrete mathematics; in computer science, programming languages, real-time systems, and software engineering, and pedagogy; and in information science, collaboration and knowledge management. The connection between graphs and algebraic structures is a recurrent theme.

Professor Marlowe has Ph.D. in Computer Science, from Rutgers, The State University, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics, also from Rutgers. Professor Marlowe has many publications and academic distinctions, with over 100 publications in refereed conferences and journals in mathematics, computer science and information science. Some of the more recent and more significant include:

• J. Marlowe, J.R. Laracy, “Logic as a Key to Integrating the Curriculum for STEM Majors”, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: JSCI Volume 15 - Number 4 - Year 2017, pp. 63-71, ISSN: 1690-4524 (Online)
• Kirova, T.J. Marlowe, C.S. Ku, “Monitoring and Reducing Application Fragility through Traceability and Effective Regression Testing”, Genie Logiciel, No 115, 2-9, December 2015.
• Rountev, S. Kagan, T. J. Marlowe, “Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis in the Presence of Large Libraries”, Proceedings of CC 2006, 216, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3923, 2006.
• P. Masticola, T. J. Marlowe, B. G. Ryder, "Multisource Data Flow Problems'', ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 17 (5), 777 -803, September 1995.
• D. Stoyenko, T. J. Marlowe, "Polynomial-Time Program Transformations and Schedulability Analysis of Parallel Real-time Programs with Restricted Resource Contention'', Journal of Real-Time Systems, 4 (4), 1992.
• J. Marlowe, B. G. Ryder, "Properties of data flow frameworks: A unified model'', Acta Informatica, 28 (2), 121 -164, 1991.

Fr. Dr. Joseph Laracy is a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark and member of the Seton Hall University Priest Community. He holds a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His principal technical interests are in systems science: systems theory (e.g., cybernetics), applied dynamical systems, and systems engineering. He also enjoys teaching topics in applied statistics, logic, and the history of mathematics and science. Father Laracy's principal theological interests are in the intersection of faith & reason and empirical science & Christianity. In addition, Father Laracy is interested in pastoral applications of Viktor Frankl's existential analysis—logotherapy. Father Laracy's work at the Complex Systems Research Laboratory at MIT concentrated on uncertainty and dynamics in large-scale, complex engineering systems and looked at key sources of uncertainty, ways to model and quantify uncertainty, and ways to maintain properties such as safety and resilience as systems change over time. His master's degree research at that time was supported in part by NASA Ames Research Center (Model-Based Hazard Analysis Research) and National Science Foundation (A Socio-Technical Approach to Internet Security). As a student at the University of Illinois, he pursued research activities to architect a scalable RSA cryptographic co-processor, supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Laracy also worked on a software pattern-based fly-by-wire aircraft control system. In the course of his studies, he held engineering positions with Lucent Technologies (Wireless Terminal Interoperability Laboratory), Ball Aerospace and Technologies (NASA Deep Impact Mission), and Light Source Energy Services.

First-order cybernetics arose from and grew with a desire to understand control processes and iterative/recursive behavior in engineering, physics, and biological systems, which second-order cybernetics generalized, in particular noting that in social systems the observer, the subject, and the process become entwined in a larger metasystem, itself reflective and recursive. From there, the connections to philosophy, mathematics, and theoretical computer science become obvious. Those connections are apparent in the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ, a contemporary of the founders of second-order cybernetics. We explore those connections, and parallels to and differences with second-order cybernetics in Lonergan's approach to theology, epistemology, ontology and teleology, and mathematics and logic.