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* Norbert Wiener ( 1894 – 1964 ) co-developed the Wiener – Kolmogorov filter and coined the term cybernetics in the 1940s.
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The first component of the term comes from " cybernetics ", which is derived from the Greek κυβερνήτης ( kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder ), a word introduced by Norbert Wiener for his pioneering work in electronic communication and control science.
In 2001 he was awarded a British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, and in 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and honored with the Norbert Wiener Award, which is given annually by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Some participants in the conference who witnessed the demonstration were John von Neumann, John Mauchly, and Norbert Wiener, who wrote about it in their memoirs.
* In 1996, he received the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility for promoting the responsible use of technology.
In modern mechanised societies, there is less need for sheer massive manpower ; Norbert Wiener wrote that " mechanical labor has most of the economic properties of slave labor, though ... it does not involve the direct demoralizing effects of human cruelty.
The theory of what came to be known as Banach spaces had antecedents in the work of the Hungarian mathematician Frigyes Riesz ( published in 1916 ) and contemporaneous contributions from Hans Hahn and Norbert Wiener.
" For his part, mathematician Norbert Wiener cited Gibbs as a major influence on his conception of cybernetics and explained in his book The Human Use of Human Beings that it was " devoted to the impact of the Gibbsian point of view on modern life, both through the substantive changes it has made to working science, and through the changes it has made indirectly in our attitude to life in general.
The term was suggested by Norbert Wiener to describe a new science of control and information in the animal and the machine.
Gardner mentions, among other examples of conjecture, Chaos, Co-ordinated, a science fiction story by John MacDougal, and cites Norbert Wiener as saying in his book Cybernetics that the human brain, just like a computing machine, probably works on a variant of the famous principle expounded by Lewis Carroll.
" In 1948 Norbert Wiener, the author of Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, said: " refrontal lobotomy ... has recently been having a certain vogue, probably not unconnected with the fact that it makes the custodial care of many patients easier.
The way Wiener's beliefs concerning nuclear weapons and the Cold War contrasted with that of John von Neumann is the major theme of the book John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener Heims ( 1980 ).
* 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.
* The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility awarded annually by CPSR, was established in 1987 in honor of Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers.
Norbert and 1894
Norbert Rillieux ( March 17, 1806 – October 8, 1894 ), a Creole American inventor and engineer, is most noted for his invention of the multiple-effect evaporator, an energy-efficient means of evaporating water.
In his honor, a bronze memorial was erected in the Louisana State Museum with the inscription: " To honor Norbert Rillieux, born at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 1806 and died at Paris, France, October 8, 1894.
Lesser-known artists who depicted the Gare Saint Lazare were Jean Béraud, who painted " The Place and Pont de l ' Europe " in 1876-78 and Norbert Goeneutte ( 1854 – 1894 ), with a studio providing a very good view of the Pont de l ' Europe, who painted this scene many times in the late 1880s.
Sidis is also discussed in Ex-Prodigy, an autobiography by mathematician Norbert Wiener ( 1894 – 1964 ), who was a prodigy himself and a contemporary of Sidis at Harvard.
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* Wolf, Norbert ( 1998 ) Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660: the face of Spain Taschen, Köln, ISBN 3-8228-6511-7 ;
* 1972 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major – Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Singverein Chorus, & Vienna Boys ’ Choir ; Norbert Balatsch & Helmut Froschauer, chorus masters ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )
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