Cybernetics

Cybernetics

or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Norbert Wiener

forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy K. Mitter

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

© 2019, 1961, 1948 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

First MIT Press paperback edition, February 1965

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964, author.

Title: Cybernetics ; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine / Norbert Wiener ; forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy Mitter.

Other titles: Control and communication in the animal and the machine

Description: [Second edition, 2019 reissue]. | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2019] | “Reissue of the 1961 second edition.” | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019005612 | ISBN 9780262537841 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Cybernetics. | Control theory. | System theory.

Classification: LCC Q310 .W47 2019 | DDC 003/.5--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019005612

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To Arturo Rosenblueth

for many years my companion in science

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