Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.

Published by Paris, Cambridge MA, & New York, Hermann & Cie., The Technology Press, John Wiley & Sons, 1948.

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Large 8vo (165 x 253 mm). 194, (2) pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition of the founding work of cybernetics, a concept popularized by the American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) to designate the science that studies the processes of control, feedback and communication in biological and electromechanical systems. - By giving rise to computer science, cybernetics has revolutionized modern society (cf. Jeremy M. Norman, From Gutenberg to the Internet, 2005, pp. 309-318). The book "contributed to popularizing a way of thinking in communication theory terms, such as feedback, information, control, input, output, stability, homeostasis, prediction, and filtering" and "earned Wiener the greater part of his public renown" (DSB). It is the first conventionally published book (rather than a technical report) to include any serious discussion of electronic computing. It also contains one of the earliest discussions since the invention of the digital computer of whether it is possible to create a chess-playing machine. - Issued as No. 1053 from the collection of "Hermann's Science and Industry News", this is the very first print run, prior to those made for the New York edition. - Upper wrapper cover and interior up to p. 74 waterstained. Spine laid down; upper cover refastened. Untrimmed copy. - DSB XIV, 347. Origins of Cyberspace 992. Actualités scientifiques et industrielles, 1053. A. Müller (ed.), Geschichte der Kybernetik (OeZG 19.4, 2008), p. 6 ff.…

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Title
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.
Author
Wiener, Norbert.
Publisher
Paris, Cambridge MA, & New York, Hermann & Cie., The Technology Press, John Wiley & Sons, 1948.
Binding
Soft cover
Edition
1st Edition
Item weight
500 grams
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