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Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Norbert Wiener info

First published 1948

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About this book

The book that founded cybernetics: feedback, information and the brain as a machine. For readers with a background in maths and physics.

The author

Norbert Wiener

1894–1964 · American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence

  • National Medal of Science
  • Professor at MIT
Profession
Computer scientist, Mathematician, Professor
Worked at
MIT, Aberdeen Proving Ground
Studied at
Harvard, Göttingen, Cambridge
Studied under
Josiah Royce, Karl Schmidt
Prizes
National Medal of Science (1963), Guggenheim Fellowship (1926), National Book Award (1965), Bôcher Memorial Prize (1933), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1949)

A child prodigy who earned a Harvard PhD at 18.

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Reading order

Pairs with: An Introduction to Cybernetics (Ashby)

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Subjects

Artificial intelligenceComputational neuroscience