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Q178577 refers to Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician and pioneering scientist who developed the field of cybernetics—the study of control and communication in machines and living organisms. His work laid important groundwork for modern artificial intelligence and computer science, making him a foundational figure in understanding how information and feedback systems work.
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Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.
Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society. His work heavily influenced computer pioneer John von Neumann, information theorist Claude Shannon, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and others.
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1894 births1964 deaths20th-century American mathematicians20th-century American non-fiction writers20th-century American philosophers20th-century American scientistsAmerican agnosticsAmerican control theoristsAmerican pacifistsAmerican people of German-Jewish descentAmerican people of Polish-Jewish descentAmerican philosophers of technology