Cybernetics
Nonfiction work
By: Norbert Wiener
Date: 1948
Source: Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1948, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11.
About the Author: Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) studied at the University of Cambridge, England and the University of Göttingen, Germany. He joined the staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1919 as an instructor in mathematics. During this time he was developing his interest in the parallels between feedback control in circuits and mental processes. This led to the creation of a new discipline which he called cybernetics, the study of control, communication, and organization. He propounded a new approach to the study of man in his technological environment, a science of man as component of an age of automation. He died in...
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