Wiener, Norbert

(b. 1894, Columbia, MO, d. 1964, Stockholm, Sweden, Ph.D. Philosophy, Harvard University, 1913). Wiener launched the discipline of ‘Cybernetics’ with the publication of his book, Cybernetics, in 1948. He defined ‘cybernetics’ as a discipline concerned with the comparative study of control mechanisms in the nervous system and high-speed computers.
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