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This is the story of a man who has fallen through the cracks in the information age and his fight for human beings that is the stuff of legend. Born on the doorstep of the twentieth century, Norbert Wiener was a descendant of Eastern European rabbis, scholars, and, purportedly, of the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides.
Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting.
In appearance and behaviour, Norbert Wiener was a baroque figure, short, rotund, and myopic, combining these and many qualities in extreme degree. His conversation was a curious mixture of pomposity and wantonness. He was a poor listener. His self-praise was playful, convincing and never offensive.
Information on Norbert Wiener. Ex-Prodigy . Autobiography, The MIT Press. I Am a Mathematician . Autobiography, The MIT Press. Dark Hero of the Information Age. In Search Of Norbert Wiener--Father of Cybernetics, by Jim Siegelman and Flo Conway, Basic Books. The Atlantic presents the legacy of Norbert Wiener in honor 125 years after his birth.
Norbert Wiener was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on November 26, 1894. Signs of his genius appeared early. He began to read at age 4, and by 7 his reading ranged from Darwin and Kingsley to the psychiatric writings of Charot and Janet.
Norbert Wiener married, and perhaps remembering his treatment by his father, he was known as a devoted parent to his two daughters. In March 1964, Wiener died unexpectedly while giving a lecture ...
Dec 29, 2023 · Read on to learn about the life and times of Norbert Weiner, the father of cybernetics. Born in Columbia, Missouri, on November 26, 1894, to Leo Wiener and Bertha Kahn, two Polish-German Jews, Norbert was home-schooled until he was nine years old. His father, Leo, taught him various subjects through teaching methods he had developed himself.
