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Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal [1] processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) ...
1960's - An example of engineering cybernetics is a device designed in the mid-1960s by General Electric Company.Referred to as a CAM (cybernetic anthropomorphous machine), this machine was designed for use by the US Army ground troops.
Cybernetics became a surprise bestseller and was widely read beyond the technical audience that Wiener had expected. In response he wrote The Human Use of Human Beings in which he further explored the social and psychological implications in a format more suited to the non-technical reader.
Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems with feedback, their structures, constraints, and possibilities. Cybernetics is relevant to the study of systems, such as mechanical, physical, biological, cognitive, and social .
Sociocybernetics is an interdisciplinary science between sociology and general systems theory and cybernetics.The International Sociological Association has a specialist research committee in the area – RC51 – which publishes the (electronic) Journal of Sociocybernetics.
Biocybernetics is the application of cybernetics to biological science disciplines such as neurology and multicellular systems. Biocybernetics plays a major role in systems biology, seeking to integrate different levels of information to understand how biological systems function.
Biomedical cybernetics investigates signal processing, decision making and control structures in living organisms. Applications of this research field are in biology, ...
By Stuart Umpleby (ed.) from the American Society for Cybernetics. 1990. "The Science of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Science" [permanent dead link ]. In: Cybernetics and Systems. Vol 21/1: 109–121. 1999. "The Origins and Purposes of Several Traditions in Systems Theory and Cybernetics" Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine ...