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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Norbert Wiener. Paris, 1948. First edition of the first book to discuss electronic computing (preceded only by a few technical reports). Wiener was a professor of Mathematics at MIT. “The revolutionary aspect of this work can hardly be underestimated.” (Origins of Cyberspace).

Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener. Paris, 1948.

First edition of the first book to discuss electronic computing (preceded only by a few technical reports). Wiener was a professor of Mathematics at MIT. “The revolutionary aspect of this work can hardly be underestimated.” (Origins of Cyberspace).

#Norbert Wiener  #Cybernetics  #Science  #Technology  #Mathematics  
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