Norbert Wiener A Life In Cybernetics
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Norbert Wiener A Life In Cybernetics
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-03-23
Norbert Wiener A Life In Cybernetics written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume. Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics—when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians—Ex-Prodigy (1953) and I Am a Mathematician (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the New York Times and New York Post to the Virginia Quarterly Review. Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.
Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1961
Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Computers categories.
It appers impossible for anyone seriously interested in our civilization to ignore this book. It is a 'must' book for those in every branch of science . . . in addition, economists, politicians, statesmen, and businessmen cannot afford to overlook cybernetics and its tremendous, even terrifying implications.
Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine Reissue Of The 1961 Second Edition
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine Reissue Of The 1961 Second Edition written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Computers categories.
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.
The Human Use Of Human Beings
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1988-03-22
The Human Use Of Human Beings written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-03-22 with Computers categories.
Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.
Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine Reissue Of The 1961 Second Edition
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine Reissue Of The 1961 Second Edition written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Computers categories.
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.
The Human Use Of Human Beings
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1988-03-22
The Human Use Of Human Beings written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-03-22 with Computers categories.
Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.
Invention
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1994
Invention written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Science categories.
An insider's view of the history of discovery and invention.
Dark Hero Of The Information Age
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Author : Flo Conway
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-27
Dark Hero Of The Information Age written by Flo Conway and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-27 with Science categories.
Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics, catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and his ardent social activism. Based on a wealth of primary sources and exclusive access to Wiener's closest family members, friends, and colleagues, Dark Hero of the Information Age reveals this eccentric genius as an extraordinarily complex figure. No one interested in the intersection of technology and culture will want to miss this epic story of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and colorful figures.
God Golem Inc
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1966-03-15
God Golem Inc written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-03-15 with Philosophy categories.
The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it—cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc., the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues.The first point he considers is that of the machine which learns. While learning is a property almost exclusively ascribed to the self-conscious living system, a computer now exists which not only can be programmed to play a game of checkers, but one which can "learn" from its past experience and improve on its own game. For a time, the machine was able to beat its inventor at checkers. "It did win," writes the author, "and it did learn to win; and the method of its learning was no different in principle from that of the human being who learns to play checkers. A second point concerns machines which have the capacity to reproduce themselves. It is our commonly held belief that God made man in his own image. The propagation of the race may also be interpreted as a function in which one living being makes another in its own image. But the author demonstrates that man has made machines which are "very well able to make other machines in their own image," and these machine images are not merely pictorial representations but operative images. Can we then say: God is to Golem as man is to Machines? in Jewish legend, golem is an embryo Adam, shapeless and not fully created, hence a monster, an automation.The third point considered is that of the relation between man and machine. The concern here is ethical. "render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's," warns the author. In this section of the book, Dr. Wiener considers systems involving elements of man and machine. The book is written for the intellectually alert public and does not involve any highly technical knowledge. It is based on lectures given at Yale, at the Société Philosophique de Royaumont, and elsewhere.
Ex Prodigy
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 1964-01-01
Ex Prodigy written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964-01-01 with Science categories.