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Author 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
Edition [Second edition, 2019 reissue]
Published Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents Preface to the second edition -- Original edition (1948) -- Introduction -- Newtonian and Bergsonian time -- Groups and statistical mechanics -- Time series, information, and communication -- Feedback and oscillation -- Computing machines and the nervous system -- Gestalt and universals -- Cybernetics and psychopathology -- Information, language, and society -- Supplementary chapters (1961) -- On learning and self-reproducing machines -- Brain waves and self-organizing systems -- Notes
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Reissue of the 1961 second edition."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cybernetics.
Control theory.
System theory.
cybernetics.
Control theory
Cybernetics
System theory
Form Electronic book
Author Hill, Doug, writer of foreword
Mitter, Sanjoy, writer of foreword
LC no. 2019005612
ISBN 9780262355902
0262355906
0262537842
9780262537841
Other Titles Control and communication in the animal and the machine