Cybernetics; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine

by Norbert Wiener

Paper Book, 1961

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Available

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Q175.W6516 1961

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New York, M.I.T. Press, 1961.

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"Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. This book is widely cited for laying the theoretical foundations of information theory and influencing the development of error-correcting servomechanisms, autonomous navigation, analog computing, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience"--

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LibraryThing member johnnylogic

A classic text from the American genius with an unfortunate name. Where successful, it was subsumed.

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LibraryThing member Lyndatrue

I almost don't know what to say about this book. It was overwhelming to read in 1981, when I first found it. From the Saturday Review (from the back cover):

"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"

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