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  2. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and ...

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    Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine is a book written by Norbert Wiener and published in 1948. [1] It is the first public usage of the term "cybernetics" to refer to self-regulating mechanisms.

  3. Norbert Wiener - Wikipedia

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    His work with cybernetics influenced Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, and through them, anthropology, sociology, and education. [ 35 ] In the mathematical field of probability, the " Wiener sausage " is a neighborhood of the trace of a Brownian motion up to a time t , given by taking all points within a fixed distance of Brownian motion.

  4. Macy conferences - Wikipedia

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    Third Cybernetics Conference, 13–14 March 1947. Fourth Cybernetics Conference, 23–24 October 1947. Title changed to "Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems". Fifth Cybernetics Conference, 18–19 March 1948; Sixth Cybernetics Conference, 24–25 March 1949; Seventh Cybernetics Conference, 23–24 March 1950.

  5. Cybernetics - Wikipedia

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    Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular processes such as feedback systems where outputs are also inputs. It is concerned with general principles that are relevant across multiple contexts, [1] including in ecological, technological, economic, biological, cognitive and social systems and also in practical activities such as designing, [2] learning, and managing.

  6. W. Ross Ashby - Wikipedia

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    William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.

  7. Cybernetics (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities, but has other definitions. Cybernetics may also refer to: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine , a 1948 book by Norbert Wiener

  8. Anatoly Kitov - Wikipedia

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    From 1948 to 1955, cybernetics was officially called bourgeois pseudoscience in the USSR. From 1951 to 1952, Kitov read the book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener in English. He found this book in the library of the secret base SKB-245.

  9. 1948 in science - Wikipedia

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    The year 1948 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ... First publication of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics: ...