* Norbert Wiener ( 1894 – 1964 ) co-developed the Wiener – Kolmogorov filter and coined the term cybernetics in the 1940s.

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.

Norbert Wiener proposed the first set theoretical definition of the ordered pair in 1914:

* 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.

** Norbert Wiener, American mathematician ( b. 1894 )

* November 26 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician ( d. 1964 )

" 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.

* Wiener, Norbert ( 1948 ).

Norbert Wiener ( November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964 ) was an American mathematician.

Norbert Wiener became a famous child prodigy.

Norbert Wiener was regarded as a semi-legendary figure at MIT

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.

In October 2011, the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles, California under the direction of Ron Sossi has staged another performance headlined by Norbert Weisser who previously performed in Schindler's List.

It was here in Cambridge that he befriended another prodigy of the time, Norbert Wiener, whose father Leo Wiener was the elder Kosambi's colleague at Harvard University.

In 1943 Lettvin introduced Pitts to Norbert Wiener at MIT, who had recently lost his " right-hand man ".

Norbert Lammert is the current President of the Bundestag.

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

* Otto of Bamberg is suspended by the Pope, and Norbert of Xanten defends himself against charges of heresy at the Synod of Fritzlar.

* The Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications, at the University of Maryland, College Park, is named in his honor.

It is named after the Saint Paul Mission founded by Archbishop François Norbert Blanchet, who arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1838 to minister to the Catholic inhabitants of French Prairie.

De Pere is also home to St. Norbert College, a private Roman Catholic liberal arts college.

The National Shrine of Saint Joseph is located at Saint Norbert Abbey.

It is graced by a large altar painting depicting St. Norbert and the allegory of life, which was donated to Inama in 1860 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

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 mathematics, the Wiener process is a continuous-time stochastic process named in honor of Norbert Wiener.

There are versions of this story involving both Norbert Wiener and Edmund Landau, who, it is claimed, " so doubted the existence of Littlewood that he made a special trip to Great Britain to see the man with his own eyes ".< ref >

* Norbert the Nark, an inept DEA agent who is continually trying, and failing, to arrest the Freak Brothers.

This is indeed true and is a deep theorem that was worked out by Norbert Wiener and Aleksandr Khinchin ( the Wiener – Khinchin theorem ).

The credit for the design of the gold coinage of this reign is usually given to James and Norbert Roettier, but the 1689 coin bears somewhat caricatured heads of the monarchs, and it is thought that this is in the style of George Bower ( d. 1689 / 90 ), an artist who designed the first type of penny and halfpenny of 1689 and also produced a number of medals with grotesque and cartoon-like busts.

The best-known stochastic process to which stochastic calculus is applied is the Wiener process ( named in honor of Norbert Wiener ), which is used for modeling Brownian motion as described by Louis Bachelier in 1900 and by Albert Einstein in 1905 and other physical diffusion processes in space of particles subject to random forces.

At Leicester-considered to be one of the seedbeds of British sociology-he met Norbert Elias and began to work on his own theoretical position.

One of Gelfand's original applications ( and one which historically motivated much of the study of Banach algebras ) was to give a much shorter and more conceptual proof of a celebrated lemma of Norbert Wiener ( see the citation below ), characterizing the elements of the group algebras L < sup > 1 </ sup >( R ) and whose translates span dense subspaces in the respective algebras.

Over the past 15 years, St. Norbert has been ranked as one of the top five comprehensive ( bachelor's-level ) colleges in the Midwest, by U. S. News & World Report.

St. Norbert encourages its students to become involved in their community through community service, and also by participating in one of the 16 fraternities, sororities, and independent social groups.

Norbert Brainin, ( 12 March 1923 – 10 April 2005 ), was the first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, one of the world's most highly regarded string quartets.

The program was founded in 1982 by professor of philosophy Dr. Norbert Schedler and was one of the first Honors Colleges in the country.

Designed by French architect Norbert Maillart and opened in 1906, some of the most recognizable features of the French neo-classical building include the two symmetric white marble main staircases, the water fountain in one of the courtyards, the ornately-decorated assembly hall and its organ ; and the Colonial-era tunnels that are accessible from the basement, notably from a hidden entrance behind the projection-screen area in the film auditorium.

Norbert eventually became one of the eight tropical cyclones to survive into Arizona.