Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners.With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidiscipl...
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| description | A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners.With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. At the core of Wiener's theory is the message (information), sent and responded to (feedback); the functionality of a machine, organism, or society depends on the quality of messages. Information corrupted by noise prevents homeostasis, or equilibrium. And yet Cybernetics is as philosophical as it is technical, with the first chapter devoted to Newtonian and Bergsonian time and the philosophical mixed with the technical throughout. This book brings the 1961 second edition back into print, with new forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy Mitter. Contemporary readers of Cybernetics will marvel at Wiener's prescience—his warnings against “noise,” his disdain for “hucksters” and “gadget worshipers,” and his view of the mass media as the single greatest anti-homeostatic force in society. This edition of Cybernetics gives a new generation access to a classic text. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1466392024-10-25T13:14:01Z Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Wiener, Norbert Robotics, computer science electrical engineering game theory feedback loop Norbert Wiener cybernetics Mathematician Prodigy scientist MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology genius biography autobiography education Computing machines Harvard University American Mathematical Society Analysis Atomic bomb war automation Bell Telephone Laboratories Cambridge University Communication theory Harmonic analysis Nervous system and communication Neurophysiology Theory of Prediction probability and statistics Quantum mechanics Claude Shannon Alan Turing stochastic control adaptive control system theory cyborgs information theory thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPF Information theory::GPFC Cybernetics and systems theory A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners.With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. At the core of Wiener's theory is the message (information), sent and responded to (feedback); the functionality of a machine, organism, or society depends on the quality of messages. Information corrupted by noise prevents homeostasis, or equilibrium. And yet Cybernetics is as philosophical as it is technical, with the first chapter devoted to Newtonian and Bergsonian time and the philosophical mixed with the technical throughout. This book brings the 1961 second edition back into print, with new forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy Mitter. Contemporary readers of Cybernetics will marvel at Wiener's prescience—his warnings against “noise,” his disdain for “hucksters” and “gadget worshipers,” and his view of the mass media as the single greatest anti-homeostatic force in society. This edition of Cybernetics gives a new generation access to a classic text. 2024-10-25T13:13:59Z 2024-10-25T13:13:59Z 2019 book ONIX_20241025_9780262355902_17 9780262355902 9780262537841 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146639 eng The MIT Press image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11810.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/11810.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/11810.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262355902 9780262537841 The MIT Press 352 Cambridge open access |
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| topic | Robotics, computer science electrical engineering game theory feedback loop Norbert Wiener cybernetics Mathematician Prodigy scientist MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology genius biography autobiography education Computing machines Harvard University American Mathematical Society Analysis Atomic bomb war automation Bell Telephone Laboratories Cambridge University Communication theory Harmonic analysis Nervous system and communication Neurophysiology Theory of Prediction probability and statistics Quantum mechanics Claude Shannon Alan Turing stochastic control adaptive control system theory cyborgs information theory thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPF Information theory::GPFC Cybernetics and systems theory |
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