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Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Norbert Wiener info

First published 1948

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About this book

The book that founded cybernetics: feedback, information and the brain as a machine. For readers with a background in maths and physics.

The author

Norbert Wiener

1894–1964 · American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence

  • National Medal of Science
  • Professor at MIT
Profession
Computer scientist, Mathematician, Professor
Worked at
MIT, Aberdeen Proving Ground
Studied at
Harvard, Göttingen, Cambridge
Studied under
Josiah Royce, Karl Schmidt
Prizes
National Medal of Science (1963), Guggenheim Fellowship (1926), National Book Award (1965), Bôcher Memorial Prize (1933), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1949)

A child prodigy who earned a Harvard PhD at 18.

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Reading order

Pairs with: An Introduction to Cybernetics (Ashby)

In print

Yes · MIT Press, 2nd edition

Which edition

Get the 2nd edition (1961), which adds two chapters, on learning and self-reproducing machines and on brain waves.

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Editions

40 editions · 1 hardcover, 5 paperback · 4 languages

First published 1948

Earliest edition listed: 1948 · the M.I.T. press

  • 1948 · the M.I.T. press
  • 1948 · The Technology Press
  • 1948 · John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • 1948 · The Technology Press//Wiley
  • 1948 · Technology Press
  • 1948 · Wiley
  • 1948 · Hermann
  • 1948 · Wiley
Show all 40 editions
  • 1948 · J. Wiley
  • 1949 · Wiley
  • 1949 · Wiley
  • 1957 · Wiley
  • 1961 · M.I.T. Press · 2d ed.
  • 1961 · M.I.T. Press and John Wiley · 2nd ed. · UND
  • 1961 · M.I.T. Press · 2d ed.
  • 1961 · MIT Press · Hardcover · 2Rev Ed edition · ISBN 9780262230070
  • 1961 · M.I.T. Press · 2nd ed.
  • 1962 · Union générale d'éditions · French
  • 1965 · M.I.T. Press · 2nd ed.
  • 1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 1965 · The MIT Press · Paperback · 2 edition · ISBN 9780262730099
  • 1971 · Union générale d'éditions · Éd. synoptique. · French
  • 1980 · MIT Press · 2nd edition · ISBN 9780262730099
  • 2002 · Tusquets · Paperback · Spanish · ISBN 9788472234529
  • 2007 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · ISBN 9781432594442
  • 2013 · Quid Pro, LLC · ISBN 9781610271806
  • 2013 · Quid Pro, LLC · ISBN 9781610272001
  • 2013 · Martino Fine Books · Paperback · ISBN 9781614275022
  • 2015 · Quid Pro, LLC · ISBN 9781610278461
  • 2016 · Quid Pro, LLC · ISBN 9781610278096
  • 2017 · Perspectiva · Paperback · ISBN 9788527311045
  • 2019 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262355919
  • 2019 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262537841
  • 2019 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262355896
  • 2019 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262355902
  • 2021 · Martino Fine Books · ISBN 9781684226214
  • 2023 · Mockingbird Press · ISBN 9781684931156
  • 2023 · Mockingbird Press · ISBN 9781684931149
  • 2d ed.
  • MIT Press · 2nd ed.

The list may be incomplete, especially for older and non-English editions.

Subjects

Artificial intelligenceComputational neuroscience