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* 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 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 Prize
He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).
* Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
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The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $ 5000 prize awarded, every three years, for an outstanding contribution to " applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.
There is also a Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics awarded by American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a Norbert Wiener Award granted by the journal Kybernetes.
* Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
# REDIRECT Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
* Shared the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm Prize with other colleagues, 1997 and 1998.
In 1984, Karat and its lyricist Norbert Kaiser were honored with the National Prize of the GDR for Arts and Literature.
In 2002, the first Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research was awarded to Dr. Norbert Hirschhorn, Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis, Dr. David Nalin, and Dr. Nathaniel F. Pierce for their contributions in the discovery and implementation of ORT.
* Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
* Peter Lax ( PhD 1949 ), recipient of the Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
Winfree was a MacArthur Fellow from 1984 to 1989 and shared the 2000 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics with Alexandre Chorin.

Norbert and Applied
* Schmitt, Norbert ( 2002 ) An Introduction to Applied Linguistics, London: Arnold.
" It 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.

Norbert and Mathematics
The May 4, 1929 issue contained an article by Dr. Norbert Wiener, then Assistant Professor of Mathematics, describing some deficiencies in a paper Albert Einstein had published earlier that year.

Norbert and was
Germany had decided to support Innocent through Norbert of Xanten, who was a friend of Bernard's.
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.
The term was earlier used in sociology by Norbert Elias in The Civilizing Process ( 1939 ) and in Marcel Mauss's account of " body techniques " ( techniques du corps ).
He was consequently impeached in 1996, and an interim president, Norbert Ratsirahonana, was appointed for the three months prior to the next presidential election.
One of the key ecclesiastical advisors of Lothair III was Saint Norbert of Xanten, who travelled to Rome in early 1126 to seek the formal sanction from Honorius to establish a new monastic order, the Premonstratensian Order ( also known as the Norbertines ), which Honorius agreed to do.
In 1818, Father Norbert Provencher founded a mission on the east bank of the Red River in what was then Rupert's Land, building a log church and naming it after St. Boniface.
This underground route was suggested by the geologist Ramond de Carbonnières in 1787, but there was no confirmation until 1931, when caver Norbert Casteret poured fluorescein dye into the flow and noted its emergence a few hours later away at Uelhs deth Joèu (" Jove's eyes " ) in the Artiga de Lin on the other side of the mountain.
Dreamland was founded in 1913 with the building of the resort ( containing a bar and hotel rooms often frequented by loggers unable to make it home in the winter ) by Norbert Sarazin.
Leo had educated Norbert at home until 1903, employing teaching methods of his own invention, except for a brief interlude when Norbert was 7 years of age.
Toronto proved to be only a short-term home, and in October 1993, after a call for volunteers to host the system, it was moved to St. Norbert College.
This time the address proved to be more stable, and FurryMUCK remained at St. Norbert until 1999, when it was finally relocated to a dedicated server.
Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cybernetics.
He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others.

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