Difference between revisions of "Cybernetics"
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Key steps in the development of the science of cybernetics were: | Key steps in the development of the science of cybernetics were: | ||
*Harold S. Black working in 1927 at Bell Telephone Laboratories on the use of negative feedback to control amplifiers launched the development of control systems in electronics | *Harold S. Black working in 1927 at Bell Telephone Laboratories on the use of negative feedback to control amplifiers launched the development of control systems in electronics | ||
| − | *Biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy gave at the University of Chicago | + | *Biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy gave in 1938 at the University of Chicago his first lecture about General System Theory as a methodology that is valid for all sciences |
*John von Neumann in the early 1940's developed thought-experiments about cellular automata, leading to the concept of self replication, which cybernetics later adopted as a core concept | *John von Neumann in the early 1940's developed thought-experiments about cellular automata, leading to the concept of self replication, which cybernetics later adopted as a core concept | ||
*Norbert Wiener during the Second World War studied the use of negative feedback in electronic circuits to control anti-aircraft gun mounts | *Norbert Wiener during the Second World War studied the use of negative feedback in electronic circuits to control anti-aircraft gun mounts | ||
