Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was an American mathematician who founded cybernetics, the study of communication and control in machines and living systems.
A child prodigy who earned his Harvard PhD at eighteen, Wiener developed theories of feedback loops and information that shaped computing, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
His 1948 book *Cybernetics* introduced concepts now fundamental to how we think about systems that regulate themselves.
Returned response data
- controlAuthority to direct
- systemsOrganized sets of elements
- homeostasisBiological internal stability maintenance
- automationSelf-operating system design
communication · loop · self-regulation · servomechanism · stability · teleology · human-machine · governor
Applied scientific methods
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- automationSelf-operating system design
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- societyOrganized communal human existence
warning · conscience · military · weapons · humanist · social responsibility · anti-war · morality
Quantified chaos in systems
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- noiseUnwanted auditory disturbance
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- channelPassage for transmission
coding · transmission · bit · bandwidth · stochastic · probability · statistical · Shannon
Exceptionally intelligent young person
- precociousDeveloped before typical age
- TuftsNew England research university
- HarvardPrestigious Cambridge university
- autodidactOne who teaches themselves
wunderkind · polymath · philosophy · zoology · linguistics · multilingual · Cambridge · Russell
Combining into a whole
- MITCambridge research university
- differential equationsEquations containing derivatives
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
feedback
Returned response data
- controlAuthority to direct
- systemsOrganized sets of elements
- homeostasisBiological internal stability maintenance
automation · communication · loop · self-regulation · servomechanism · stability · teleology · human-machine · governor · regulation
technology
Applied scientific methods
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- automationSelf-operating system design
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
society · warning · conscience · military · weapons · humanist · social responsibility · anti-war · morality · scientist
entropy
Quantified chaos in systems
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- noiseUnwanted auditory disturbance
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
channel · coding · transmission · bit · bandwidth · stochastic · probability · statistical · Shannon · filtering
child genius
Exceptionally intelligent young person
- precociousDeveloped before typical age
- TuftsNew England research university
- HarvardPrestigious Cambridge university
autodidact · wunderkind · polymath · philosophy · zoology · linguistics · multilingual · Cambridge · Russell · Bertrand Russell
integration
Combining into a whole
- MITCambridge research university
- differential equationsEquations containing derivatives
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- child prodigiesMozart, Einstein, Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Bobby Fischer
- Cyberneticians
- Cyberneticsfeedback loops, control systems, self-regulation, homeostasis, servomechanisms
- Media TheoristsMarshall McLuhan
- Systems Thinkers
- roboticsrobot, android, humanoid, robotic arm, servo
Norbert WienerB.F. Skinner
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
Norbert WienerWernher von Braun
German-American aerospace engineer