Norbert Wiener died in Stockholm last month, and this book, consisting of lectures delivered at Yale and Paris in 1962, is his first posthumous publication. In many ways, it is an accurate ...

The word describes a new field of study shared by many sciences. Among other things, it looks into the processes common to nervous systems and mathematical machines ...

In March 1946, some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century--among them John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts--gathered at the ...

Brattain), and the establishment of a new, integrative science called cybernetics (Norbert Wiener). This revolution ... still largely obscured. A recent book outlining the Great Acceleration ...

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In 1964, when McLuhan’s book was first published ... one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order ...

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Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The book presents an authoritative assessment of Norbert Elias (1897-1990). It recognizes Elias as one of the major contributors to the ...