1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century’s most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics ...

Wiener coined the term "cybernetics" to encompass his theories of how complex systems are controlled through informational feedback channels.

Norbert Wiener worried about military cybernetics, fearing the fatal seduction of a ‘push-button’ war. ... Cybernetics dwindled as a popular field by the early 1970s, ...

Archetype of the absent-minded professor, Norbert Wiener was a gifted mathematician and engineer, instrumental in making cybernetics a scientific discipline in its own right. Written by Nick Smith In ...

Julian Bigelow, 89, an electrical engineer and mathematician who helped pioneer both cybernetics and computing, died Monday in Princeton, N.J., of unspecified causes.

In 1948 Wiener published his famous Cybernetics, which caused a still-continuing stir in scientific circles. The word cybernetics, which Wiener coined, is based on the Greek word for “steersman ...

Last week at Indiana’s Wabash College, Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., flatly answered no. Politics aside, said he, the role the scientist now plays can ...

First, I should like to explain who I am. I am Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Iam the author of the recently published book, Cybernetics. As you will see, ...