Norbert Wiener Dead
Founded cybernetics — the study of control and communication in animals and machines — with his 1948 book.
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Coined 'cybernetics' (1948) — the science of control and communication in animals and machines — and with it the vocabulary of feedback, information, and system that computing still uses.\n\nA child prodigy who got his Harvard PhD at 18; his wartime work on prediction fed directly into control theory.