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'''Norbert Wiener''', (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964)<br/> | '''Norbert Wiener''', (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964)<br/> | ||
| − | was an American mathematician and founder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics cybernetics]. From 1919 until 1960, Wiener was professor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. In his [[Timeline#1948|1948]] book | + | was an American mathematician and founder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics cybernetics]. From 1919 until 1960, Wiener was professor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. In his [[Timeline#1948|1948]] book ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics:_Or_Control_and_Communication_in_the_Animal_and_the_Machine Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine]'', he describes how a chess program could be developed using a depth-limited [[Minimax|minimax search]] with an [[Evaluation Function|evaluation function]]. |
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* [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1950'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings The Human Use of Human Beings]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt Houghton Mifflin], | * [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1950'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings The Human Use of Human Beings]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt Houghton Mifflin], | ||
* [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1953'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ex-prodigy Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press] | * [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1953'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ex-prodigy Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press] | ||
| + | * [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1954'''). ''Men, Machines, and the World About Them''. Medicine and Science, [http://www.robertspahr.com/teaching/hnm/wiener_men_machines_and_the_world_about.pdf pdf] | ||
* [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1964'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/god-golem-inc God & Golem, Inc]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press], [http://luisguillermo.com/diosygolem/God_and_Golem_Inc.pdf pdf reprint] | * [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1964'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/god-golem-inc God & Golem, Inc]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press], [http://luisguillermo.com/diosygolem/God_and_Golem_Inc.pdf pdf reprint] | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_S._Brown Gordon S. Brown], [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1984'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4640788 Automation, 1955: A Retrospective]''. [[IEEE#Annals|IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]], Vol. 6, No. 4 | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_S._Brown Gordon S. Brown], [[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1984'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4640788 Automation, 1955: A Retrospective]''. [[IEEE#Annals|IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]], Vol. 6, No. 4 | ||
| + | * [[Mathematician#PRMasani|Pesi R. Masani]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-0348-9252-0 Norbert Wiener 1894–1964]''. Vita Mathematica | ||
* [http://mindell.scripts.mit.edu/homepage/ David Mindell], [http://jerome-segal.de/acc-en.htm Jérôme Segal], [http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/ Slava Gerovitch] ('''2003'''). ''[https://www.infoamerica.org/documentos_word/shannon-wiener.htm Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union]''. in [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walker_(Wissenschaftshistoriker) Mark Walker] (ed.) ('''2003'''). ''[https://www.crcpress.com/Science-and-Ideology-A-Comparative-History/Walker/p/book/9780415279994 Science and Ideology: A Comparative History]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routledge Routledge] » [[Claude Shannon]], [[Norbert Wiener]], covers the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress | * [http://mindell.scripts.mit.edu/homepage/ David Mindell], [http://jerome-segal.de/acc-en.htm Jérôme Segal], [http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/ Slava Gerovitch] ('''2003'''). ''[https://www.infoamerica.org/documentos_word/shannon-wiener.htm Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union]''. in [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walker_(Wissenschaftshistoriker) Mark Walker] (ed.) ('''2003'''). ''[https://www.crcpress.com/Science-and-Ideology-A-Comparative-History/Walker/p/book/9780415279994 Science and Ideology: A Comparative History]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routledge Routledge] » [[Claude Shannon]], [[Norbert Wiener]], covers the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress | ||
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* [https://opc.mfo.de/person_detail?id=4520 Details for Norbert Wiener - Oberwolfach Photo Collection] | * [https://opc.mfo.de/person_detail?id=4520 Details for Norbert Wiener - Oberwolfach Photo Collection] | ||
* [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/cybernetic_delirium.html The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener] by [https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/sociology/people/faculty-directory/stephen-j-pfohl.html Stephen Pfohl] | * [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/cybernetic_delirium.html The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener] by [https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/sociology/people/faculty-directory/stephen-j-pfohl.html Stephen Pfohl] | ||
| − | * Norbert Wiener - Men, Machines, and the World About Them (1950), Norbert Wiener begins speaking around 13:30, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video (Audio) | + | * [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/science/mit-scholars-1949-essay-on-machine-age-is-found.html M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Markoff John Markoff], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times The New York Times], May 20, 2013 |
| + | * Norbert Wiener - Men, Machines, and the World About Them (1950), Norbert Wiener begins speaking around 13:30, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video (Audio) <ref>[[Norbert Wiener]] ('''1954'''). ''Men, Machines, and the World About Them''. Medicine and Science, [http://www.robertspahr.com/teaching/hnm/wiener_men_machines_and_the_world_about.pdf pdf]</ref> | ||
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[[Category:Videos|Wiener]] | [[Category:Videos|Wiener]] | ||
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Home * People * Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener [1]
Norbert Wiener, (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964)
was an American mathematician and founder of cybernetics. From 1919 until 1960, Wiener was professor at MIT. In his 1948 book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, he describes how a chess program could be developed using a depth-limited minimax search with an evaluation function.
Photos
Gonzalo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates El Ajedrecista
to Norbert Wiener, Paris Cybernetic Congress 1951 [2]
[3]
Quotes
Quote from Science in Rewiew: Cybernetics, a New Science [4]
Professor Wiener assures us that a mechanical chess player could be constructed that "might very well be as good a player as the vast majority of the human race." Since each mechanical brain provides the knowledge with which to build a better mechanical brain, it is conceivable that eventually we may build a better mechanical brain, it is conceivable that eventually we may build machines that will surpass the best human brains in thinking capacity, that may not only do all man's work for him but also solve such problems as the control of the atomic bomb and how to reconcile east and west. All that would be left for man to do would be to devise ways to stop the machine from destroying him.
Quote by Norbert Wiener from Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth [5]
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
Selected Publications
- Norbert Wiener (1913). A Comparison Between the Treatment of the Algebra of Relatives by Schroeder and that by Whitehead and Russell. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University
- Norbert Wiener (1948). Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. MIT Press
- Norbert Wiener (1950). The Human Use of Human Beings. Houghton Mifflin,
- Norbert Wiener (1953). Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth. MIT Press
- Norbert Wiener (1954). Men, Machines, and the World About Them. Medicine and Science, pdf
- Norbert Wiener (1964). God & Golem, Inc. MIT Press, pdf reprint
- Gordon S. Brown, Norbert Wiener (1984). Automation, 1955: A Retrospective. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 6, No. 4
- Pesi R. Masani (1990). Norbert Wiener 1894–1964. Vita Mathematica
- David Mindell, Jérôme Segal, Slava Gerovitch (2003). Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union. in Mark Walker (ed.) (2003). Science and Ideology: A Comparative History. Routledge » Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, covers the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress
See also
External Links
- Norbert Wiener from Wikipedia
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Norbert Wiener
- Details for Norbert Wiener - Oberwolfach Photo Collection
- The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener by Stephen Pfohl
- M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found by John Markoff, The New York Times, May 20, 2013
- Norbert Wiener - Men, Machines, and the World About Them (1950), Norbert Wiener begins speaking around 13:30, YouTube Video (Audio) [7]
References
- ↑ Norbert Wiener from Wikipedia, Image by Konrad Jacobs, Norbert Wiener - Oberwolfach Photo Collection
- ↑ A New Photograph of “El jugador ajedrecista,” the World’s First Chess Computer by Nathan Bauman, July 16th, 2006
- ↑ David Mindell, Jérôme Segal, Slava Gerovitch (2003). Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union. in Mark Walker (ed.) (2003). Science and Ideology: A Comparative History. Routledge » Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, covers the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress
- ↑ Science in Rewiew: Cybernetics, a New Science by William L. Laurence, New York Times, Sunday, December 19, 1948
- ↑ Norbert Wiener (1953). Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth. MIT Press
- ↑ dblp: Norbert Wiener
- ↑ Norbert Wiener (1954). Men, Machines, and the World About Them. Medicine and Science, pdf
