Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

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MIT Press, 1961 - Computers - 212 pages

Acclaimed one of the "seminal books... comparable in ultimate importance to... Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill," Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead.-- Saturday Review

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Newtonian and Bergsonian Time
30
Groups and Statistical Mechanics
45
Time Series Information and Communication
60
Feedback and Oscillation
95
Gestalt and Universals
133
Cybernetics and Psychopathology
144
Information Language and Society
155
On Learning and SelfReproducing Machines
169
Brain Waves and SelfOrganizing Systems
181
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About the author (1961)

Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) served on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death. In 1963, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his contributions to mathematics, engineering, and biological sciences. He was the author of many books, including Norbert Wiener--A Life in Cybernetics and the National Book Award-winning God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (both published by the MIT Press).