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Apr 16, 2024 · Norbert Wiener (born Nov. 26, 1894, Columbia, Mo., U.S.—died March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Swed.) was an American mathematician who established the science of cybernetics. He attained international renown by formulating some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century.
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Apr 25, 2024 · Norbert Wiener – the man who established the field of cybernetics – also laid the groundwork for today’s prosperity of Artificial Intelligence. Born on November 26, 1894, Wiener was a child prodigy.
Apr 28, 2024 · Norbert Wiener was a mathematician and philosopher who made several significant contributions to the development of artificial intelligence. In the 1940s and 1950s, Wiener was one of the...
4 days ago · Norbert Wiener's cybernetics described control and stability in electrical networks. Claude Shannon 's information theory described digital signals (i.e., all-or-nothing signals). Alan Turing 's theory of computation showed that any form of computation could be described digitally.
6 days ago · In 1960, AI pioneer Norbert Wiener described the AI alignment problem as follows: "If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot interfere effectively… we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire."
Apr 29, 2024 · Norbert Wiener's work was applied to electrical engineering, most notably to control systems. Wiener is considered to be the founder of the field of cybernetics, which is interdisciplinary between electrical engineering, computer science, and biology.
Apr 18, 2024 · US mathematician, the founder of cybernetics.The son of a Harvard professor of Slavonic languages and literature, Wiener was born in Columbia, Montana. A mathematical infant prodigy, he graduated from Tufts at the age of fourteen and went on to gain his Harvard PhD at eighteen.
