After World War II, communication and control engineering reached a high level of development. The next step may be the recasting and unifying of the theories of control and communication in the machi
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Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship betwee
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Sarah Wiener kocht, wie es ihrem Naturell entspricht: mit groser Leidenschaft und tausend Ideen, aber trotzdem bodenstandig. Der Geschmack ist ihr dabei das Wichtigste und, dass die Zutaten frisch und
Acclaimed one of the "seminal books . . . comparable in ultimate importance to . . . Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists,
