__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, the ...

Largely forgotten today, Norbert Wiener’s science of “cybernetics”—the study of organisms and machines as mutually compatible feedback systems—captivated scholars and the public alike from the late ...

Norbert Wiener died in Stockholm last month, and this book, consisting of lectures delivered at Yale and Paris in 1962, is his first posthumous publication. In many ways, it is an accurate reflection ...

“ONCE in a great while a scientific book is published that sets bells jangling wildly in a dozen different sciences. Such a book is Cybernetics.” So wrote Time magazine in 1948. Besides catching the ...

With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who ...

Dr. Norbert Wiener, world-renowned scientist, who was considered the father of automation–the son of a Russian-born Jewish peddler who himself rose to become the first professor of Slavonic languages ...

On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and engineer best known as the father of ...