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Article: Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics.(Book Review)
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
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- January 1, 2006
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Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
I was introduced to Norbert Wiener through Neil Postman's Media Ecology seminars.
A wunderkind, born in 1894, Wiener graduated from Harvard with a Ph.D. at age 18. He was then sent off to England to study under Bertrand Russell, and after that went to Gottingen, Germany, to explore his mathematical notions with some of the most renowned scholars in the field of mathematics. In 1919 Wiener obtained a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained for 45 years.
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