Norbert Wiener
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Norbert Wiener was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A child prodigy, Wiener later beca
Wiener was regarded as a semi-legendary figure at MIT.
Norbert (standing) and Margaret Wiener (sitting) at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932
Cybernetics
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Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the outcomes of actions return as inputs for subsequent actions. It is concerned with gene
Norbert Wiener
…processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology…
Principle diagram of a cybernetic system with a feedback loop
Norbert Wiener