Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener (Author)

Dimensions:

176 mm × 250 mm

17.6 cm × 25 cm

6.93 inches × 9.84 inches

A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners.

With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. At the core of Wiener's theory is the message (information), sent and responded to (feedback); the functionality of a machine