(b. 1894, Columbia, MO, d. 1964, Stockholm, Sweden, Ph.D. Philosophy, Harvard University, 1913). Wiener launched the discipline of Cybernetics with the publication of his book, Cybernetics, in 1948. He defined cybernetics as a discipline concerned with the comparative study of control mechanisms in the nervous system and high-speed computers.
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