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

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   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.

3. The Human Use of Human Beings - Wikipedia

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   The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is a research association founded in 1964, the same year Wiener died, and is dedicated to the cooperative understanding and further improvement of cybernetics theory. The Human Use of Human Beings was translated to French in 1950 as Cybernétique et société (Paris : 10/18).

4. Norbert Wiener - Wikipedia

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   Robert A. Heinlein named a spaceship after him in his 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy, a "Free Trader" ship called the Norbert Wiener mentioned in Chapter 14. The Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications (NWC) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park is devoted to the scientific and ...

5. Self-organization in cybernetics - Wikipedia

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   Wiener regarded the automatic serial identification of a black box and its subsequent reproduction (copying) as sufficient to meet the condition of self-organization. [13] The importance of phase locking or the "attraction of frequencies", as he called it, is discussed in the 2nd edition of his " Cybernetics ". [ 14 ]

6. W. Ross Ashby - Wikipedia

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   William Ross Ashby was born in 1903 in London, where his father was working at an advertising agency. [4] From 1921 he studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he received his B.A. in 1924 and his M.B. and B.Ch. in 1928.

7. List of 1948 box office number-one films in the United States

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   January 7, 1948: Captain from Castile [1] 2: January 14, 1948: Road to Rio: Road to Rio reached number one in its third week of release [1] 3: January 21, 1948 [2] 4: January 28, 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Treasure of the Sierra Madre reached number one in its second week of release. [3] 5: February 4, 1948 [4] 6: February 11, 1948 ...

8. Cyberneticist - Wikipedia

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   A cybernetician or a cyberneticist is a person who applies cybernetics.. Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician rather than a physicist.

9. Information Age - Wikipedia

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   Information is the central theme of several new sciences, which emerged in the 1940s, including Shannon's (1949) Information Theory [79] and Wiener's (1948) Cybernetics. Wiener stated: "information is information not matter or energy".