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		Wiener, an insecure, far less worldly, sometimes vain, and often hypersensitive personality, simply didn't go to as much trouble to make an impression outside the realm of mathematics, where he was confident to the point of arrogance.
		At MIT Wiener began his long friendship with Vannevar Bush, a man who in the early 1930s was deeply involved in the problems of building mechanical calculators, and in the 1940s took charge of the largest-scale administration of applied science in history.
		Wiener was convinced that biology, even sociology and anthropology, were to be as profoundly affected by cybernetics as electronics theory or computer engineering; in fact anthropologist Gregory Bateston was closely involved with Wiener and later with the first AI researchers.
	www.rheingold.com /texts/tft/5.html (5638 words)

	Norbert Wiener
		Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894, Columbia, Missouri - March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden) was a American mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics.
		Norbert was educated at home until he was seven, he entered school only briefly before resuming the majority of his studies at home.
		Wiener received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 for a dissertation on mathematical logic.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Norbert_Wiener.html (371 words)

	Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
		Norbert Wiener developed the field of cybernetics, inspiring a generation of scientists to think of computer technology as a means to extend human capabilities.
		Norbert Wiener was born on November 26, 1894, and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University at the age of 18 for a thesis on mathematical logic.
		Wiener's vision of cybernetics had a powerful influence on later generations of scientists, and inspired research into the potential to extend human capabilities with interfaces to sophisticated electronics, such as the user interface studies conducted by the SAGE program.
	www.livinginternet.com /i/ii_wiener.htm (502 words)

	Norbert Wiener Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Norbert was driven hard on the way to becoming a prodigy; fortunately he had the intellect and energy to emerge without undue suffering.
		Wiener was awarded a traveling fellowship which he spent at the two centers where learning, especially in the mathematical and physical sciences, was perhaps the most significant and the most exciting in Europe: the University of Cambridge, England, and the University of Göttingen, Germany.
		Wiener had been instructed in the Lebesgue integral by G. Hardy at Cambridge, and with this grounding and his recognition of the importance of Gibbs's writings, he attacked the problem of the Brownian motion and produced one of his first major contributions to research.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/norbert-wiener (459 words)

	Norbert Wiener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wiener is perhaps best known as the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback and has implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.
		Norbert Wiener was the first child of Leo Wiener, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, and Bertha Kahn, of German-Jewish descent.
		The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norbert_Wiener (2304 words)

	NORBERT WIENER (1894-1964) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norbert Wiener was born in 1894, on November 26, in Columbia (Missouri).
		In this book Wiener applies generalized harmonic analysis to stationary aleatory signals and solves the problem of optimal elimination of the perturbative noise and of optimal prediction of the signal itself, with the help of a filtering operator.
		Norbert Wiener's personality was generous: "I want to be the master of nobody", he told me once.
	www.isss.org /lumwiener.htm (1779 words)

	Norbert Wiener Biography \| World of Scientific Discovery
		Born in Columbia, Missouri, Wiener experienced an atypical childhood; able to read and write by the age of three, Wiener's early years lacked much of the fun associated with childhood.
		Wiener's father, a professor at Harvard University, was a strict taskmaster and pushed his son toward success.
		Wiener entered Tufts College at the age of eleven, but had a difficult time when choosing his major field of study.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/norbert-wiener-wsd (397 words)

	Department of Mathematics - Norbert Wiener
		Wiener worked at cybernetics, philosophized about it, and propagandized for it the rest of his life, all the while keeping up his research in other areas of mathematics.
		Wiener was a man of many moods, and these were reflected in his lectures, which ranged from among the worst to the very best I have ever heard.
		Wiener was among those scientists who recognized the full implications of the scientist's unique role in modern society and his responsibilities to it in the age of electronic computers and nuclear weapons.
	www.tufts.edu /as/math/wiener.html (1236 words)

	Norbert Wiener article by Leon Tabak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norbert Wiener passed through several of the institutions that figured most prominently in the history of twentieth century science: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the universities at Cambridge and Göttingen, and the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground.
		Norbert Wienerís own father had come to the United States as an immigrant from Russian and begun life in this country as a laborer, then risen to establish himself as a professor of languages at Harvard University without ever earning a college degree.
		Wiener understood the advantages of encoding information in digital rather than analog form, computing with binary rather than decimal arithmetic, and equipping the computer with a means to store discrete, replaceable data and instructions.
	people.cornellcollege.edu /ltabak/publications/articles/wiener.html (4960 words)

	Norbert Wiener's Patent
		Norbert Wiener, child prodigy, professor of mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death in 1964, author of several seminal books and the science of cybernetics, and winner of the National Medal of Science, was also the inventor of USPN 2,024,900 issued
		Wiener goes on to explain that obtaining a patent with teeth in it depends on the logistic and detailed language of the specific claims, which Wiener asserts have lttle to do with the actual merits of the invention.
		Wiener was known as a champion of the American worker as well as adding to the body of scientific knowledge with his work on stochastic processes.
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	Wiener
		Wiener, the father of cybernetics, could be supposed to endorse this imperialist ambition.
		Wiener was not unaware of the ironies through which cybernetics would imperil the very liberal humanistic subject whose origins are enmeshed with self-regulating machinery.
		Wiener was one of the important voices during the 1940s and 1950s who cast the cosmological drama between cybernetic mechanisms and noise in these terms.
	www.english.ucla.edu /faculty/hayles/wiener.htm (12939 words)

	Amazon.ca: Invention : The Care and Feeding of Ideas: Books: Norbert Wiener,Steve Joshua Heims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wiener provides an engagingly written insider's understanding of the history of discovery and invention, emphasizing the historical circumstances that foster innovations and allow their application.
		Wiener's comments on the problem of secrecy and the importance of the "free-lance" scientist are particularly pertinent today.
		Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	www.amazon.ca /Invention-Feeding-Ideas-Norbert-Wiener/dp/0262231670 (702 words)

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		Cybernetics as a discipline was developed by Norbert Wiener (in Cybernetics, or control and communication in the animal and machine, 1948) and others such as William Ross Ashby.
		Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, engineer and social philosopher, coined the word "cybernetics" from the Greek word meaning "steersman." He defined it as the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.
		He is a fellow of AAAS, ICA, NIAS, the East-West Center (Hawaii), and the Society for Science of Design (Japan); and recipient of the Norbert Wiener Medal for Cybernetics, the Wiener-Schmidt Prize for his contributions to cybernetics and education, and the 2004 ICA Fellows Book award.
	www.lycos.com /info/cybernetics--norbert-wiener.html (641 words)

	CPSR - CPSR's 2005 Norbert Wiener Award to Douglas Engelbart
		The Norbert Wiener Award was established in 1987 by CPSR in memory of the originator of the field of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), whose pioneering work was one of the pillars on which modern computing technology was created.
		Wiener was among the first to examine the social and political consequences of computing technology.
		The Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility will be presented to Douglas Engelbart in Palo Alto, CA on Saturday, October 29, 2005 from 5:30-7:00 p.m, after the Annual CPSR Members Meeting.
	www.cpsr.org /news/press/wiener2005 (1269 words)

	Norbert Wiener related links
		In the spring of 1948, Wiener convened the first of the weekly meetings that was to continue for several years...
		Wiener's stress on interdisciplinary and practical work in the field of communications helped to set the foundation for the upcoming developments in digital computers.
		Instead, to paraphrase Wiener, men bound for Los Angeles try continually to decrease the amount by which they are not yet in the smog...
	www.angelfire.com /co/1x137/cyber.html (2345 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Norbert Wiener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norbert Wiener, raised to be a prodigy, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard at eighteen, and studied with
		Scarcely less brilliant than von Neumann, Wiener was vain, sometimes paranoid, and not known to be the life of the party, but he made important connections between computers, living organisms, and the fundamental laws of the physical universe.
		Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), U.S. mathematician, educator, founder of cybernetics.
	fusionanomaly.net /norbertwiener.html (790 words)

	Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality
		Norbert Wiener defined "cybernetics" as the science of transmitting messages between man and machine, or from machine to machine.
		Wiener's remarkable insight, which is the premise behind all human-computer interactivity and interface design, is that human communication should be a model for human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions.
		His theory of cybernetics was meant to improve the quality of our existence in a technological society, where people are increasingly reliant on machines, and where interactions with machines are the norm.
	www.artmuseum.net /w2vr/timeline/Wiener.html (159 words)

	collision detection: My New York Times Book Review piece on Norbert Wiener
		Wiener used his feedback theory to create an antiaircraft gun that tracked a plane in the air as if it were alive.
		The authors suggest Wiener's swings were exacerbated by his oppressive upbringing: home-schooled by a scold of a father, Wiener started college at the age of 11 in 1906, earned his Harvard Ph.D. by 18 and, like most prodigies, remained a socially awkward geek forever after.
		Wiener's colleagues were shattered, and without his participation, their explorations of his ideas quickly atrophied.
	www.collisiondetection.net /mt/archives/2005/03/_the_original_c.html (1310 words)

	Norbert Weiner
		From his early youth Wiener, the prodigy, acquired intensive experience in the manipulation of both mathematical and linguistic symbols; but his career choice seemed initially little related to these skills.
		Wiener's presence at M.I.T. spans the period during which the Institute transformed itself from a technical school into a university of a novel type, one apolarized around science," and his intellectual virtuosity, curiosity and integrity contributed importantly to that transition.
		Most of Wiener's later mathematical work stemmed from his early interest in the study of irregularities and in his attempts to give meaningful mathematical descriptions of such irregularities, no matter where in nature they occur.
	ic.media.mit.edu /projects/JBW/ARTICLES/WIENER/WIENER1.HTM (747 words)

	Homage to Norbert Wiener
		, a series begun in 1982, pays "homage" to Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), the scientist and humanist considered to be the father of cybernetics (Note 1).
		Norbert Wiener recognized the "fundamental element of chance in the texture of the universe itself".
		Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), founder of the science of cybernetics, worked towards an understanding of the principles governing the relationship between computing machines and the human nervous system.
	www.verostko.com /wiener/wiener.html (901 words)

	Modesty Is Not a Virtue: Norbert Wiener
		Toward the end of his life, Norbert Wiener seemed to be obsessed with the value of his contributions to science.
		Wiener was the man who put the word "cybernetics" into our current vocabulary, and every child who watches TV or plays with a computer seems to know what the "cyber universe" is all about, even though Wiener himself might have been revulsed by what he saw.
		After Wiener's death, Gordon Raisbeck, his literary executor and son-in-law, was naturally more concerned with the published books, and the existence of the manuscript became a dim memory.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/bookrevs/davis295.htm (1325 words)

	Norbert Wiener (1894--1964)
		A very carefully brought up young man. His father, Leo Wiener, was a professor of Slavic languages and literature at Harvard, who had pronounced and peculiar views on education, and put them into effect on young Norbert.
		The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: a Centennial Symposium in Honor of the 100th anniversary of Norbert Wiener's birth
		Proceedsings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress, 1994
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/notebooks/wiener.html (538 words)

	Marznet's Great Moments in Computer History::Norbert Wiener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This concept of interdependent communications systems, coupled with Wiener's assertion that a machine that changes its responses based on feedback is a machine that learns, indicates the distinction between media and cybermedia.
		Since Wiener's time, cybernetics as a discipline experienced a rapid rise (in the 1960s) and a swift decline, but it appears to be on the upswing again because of a broadened perspective.
		The original foundation of cybernetics was limited to the observation of the states of a system, with the drawback being that the states observed -- and defined -- were wholly dependent on an observer who was construed as impartial and having no effect on the observed system.
	computing.marzopolis.com /40s/norbert-wiener.php (169 words)

	Source of Norbert Wiener quote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The first edition is subtitled "The Later Life of a Prodigy; An Autobiographical Account of the Mature Years and Career of Norbert Wiener and a Continuation of the Account of His Childhood in Ex-Prodigy" (from its catalog entry in the Library of Congress).
		It is fun to think of how they managed to travel, and as much as they did [even Norbert Wiener: Oxford, Cambridge, Copenhagen, and Göttingen...]; and remembering how they had to rely on trains and ships; incl., around the world trips; even Albert Einstein who presumably was happiest working in his office.
		Norbert Wiener worked with several of them from Göttingen, but mostly with Born.
	www.math.uiowa.edu /~jorgen/wienerquotesource.html (401 words)

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