Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Reissue of the 1961
- Authors
- Norbert Wiener
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Tags
- 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
- Date
- 2019-09-13
- Size
- 3.33 MB
- Lang
- en
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...