Kybernetes: Volume 23 Issue 6/7
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Knowing Norbert
Stafford BeerGives an account of Norbert Wiener’s works and how they influenced the author. The seminal Cybernetics or Control and Communications in the Animal and Machine introduces the…
Wiener’s Insight into Communication
Ernst von GlasersfeldBriefly describes the impact that Wiener’s work had on language and communication. He believed that a message was “a sequence of measurable events distributed in time” – a signal…
The Early Years: Some Comments on the Origins and Concepts of Cybernetics
J. RoseExamines the role and importance of the ideas of Norbert Wiener, the Father of cybernetics in the context of the Information Revolution. Sketches ideas underlying the origins of…
Norbert Wiener in the Early 1950s
Robert ValléeMemories about Norbert Wiener are presented by the author who had the opportunity to meet him in Paris (1951 and 1953), then at MIT and in his country house in New Hampshire in…
For Norbert Wiener
Frank GeorgeRecalls the early life of Norbert Wiener and describes some of the works that initiated the cybernetic movement. Highlights people who influenced Wiener and leads on to who/what…
The Mathematical Work of Norbert Wiener (1894‐1964)
S.D. ChatterjiDescribes some parts of Wiener’s significant contribution to mathematics in as simple and non‐technical a language as possible. Looks at Wiener’s early research and how he applied…
Norbert Wiener and the Social Sciences
Felix Geyer, Johannes van der ZouwenAims to analyse the influence of Norbert Wiener’s ideas on the social sciences and on social systems, including society as a whole. Describes Wiener’s own attitudes regarding the…
About Wiener’s Generalized Harmonic Analysis
Robert ValléeHarmonic analysis, probability and statistics were among the fields Wiener was most interested in. In his generalized harmonic analysis he introduced, for a signal with finite…
Remarks on Scientific Creativity Considered as a Cybernetic Process
Edmond V. NicolauConsiders the central nervous system as a data‐processing system, in which one can model (simulate) an operating system, a knowledge processor, a monitor, a model of the Universe…
Cybernetics – The Modern Science of Systems
Kevin WarwickThis article has been written in memory of Norbert Wiener and is dedicated to him. Takes a look at how cybernetics provides an extremely useful framework for the control and…
The Seeds of Wiener and the Cybernetic Tree
Rafael Rodríguez‐DelgadoProposes two tentative projects for ordering the scientific concepts in relation to a systemic theory of knowledge, based on cognitive sciences. It tries to develop some basic…
What Is There to Know?
Alex M. AndrewThe attempt to understand the working of the brain suffers from difficulties of definition, since it is not clear that brains can understand brains, and the nature of…
Feedback and Musical Resonance
C. MusèsLooks at the interrelationship between resonance, probability and feedback and describes how we can control and direct them – the very essence of cybernetics – by using musical…
Fuzzy Systems, Control, and Connectionism
Constantin Virgil NegoitaConsiders and defends the realist understanding of the notion of fuzzy system, that is, the view that fuzzy functions are ontologically respectable for scientific explanations of…
Wiener‐Hopf Equation Revisited
Amitava GhosalDiscusses a class of integral equations known as the famous Wiener‐Hopf equation which has interesting practical applications in stochastic systems like queues, network queues or…
The Presence of Norbert Wiener in Both Order Cybernetics
E. Bernard‐WeilWhen confronted with issues dealing with first and second order cybernetics, it seems that the manner of defining the former has been somewhat caricatured. The second appears to…
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- Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici