1. Cybernetics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex systems, especially communication processes, control mechanisms and feedback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

Cybernetics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other uses, see Cybernetics (disambiguation) Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex systems , especially communication processes, control mechanisms and feedback principles. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems electrical network theory mechanical engineering logic modeling ... evolutionary biology and neuroscience in the 1940s. Other fields of study which have influenced or been influenced by cybernetics include game theory system theory (a mathematical counterpart to cybernetics), psychology (especially neuropsychology behavioral psychology cognitive psychology philosophy , and architecture Systems science Portal Contents Overview History The Roots of Cybernetic theory The Early 20th century ... edit Overview The term cybernetics stems from the Greek kybernetes , steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder — the same root as government ). Cybernetics is a broad field of study, but the essential goal of cybernetics is to understand and define the functions and processes of systems that have goals, and that participate in circular, causal chains that move from action to sensing to comparison with desired goal to action. Studies of this field are all ultimately means of examining different forms of systems and applying what is known to make the design and function of any system, including artificial systems such as business management, more

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3. Cybernetics - A Definition Norbert Wiener coined “cybernetics” around 1948 to denote the study of “teleological mechanisms” systems that embody goals. http://www.pangaro.com/published/cyber-macmillan.html

HOME What is the derivation of the word "cyberspace"? teleological mechanisms William Gibson, who coined the term " cyberspace " in 1982, as quoted in New York Times Sunday Magazine, 19 August 2007 Artificial Intelligence and cybernetics: Aren't they the same thing? Or, isn't one about computers and the other about robots? The answer to these questions is emphatically, No. Researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) use computer technology to build intelligent machines; they consider implementation (that is, working examples) as the most important result. Practitioners of cybernetics use models of organizations, feedback, goals, and conversation to understand the capacity and limits of any system (technological, biological, or social); they consider powerful descriptions as the most important result. The field of AI first flourished in the 1960s as the concept of universal computation [Minsky 1967], the cultural view of the brain as a computer, and the availability of digital computing machines came together to paint a future where computers were at least as smart as humans. The field of cybernetics came into being in the late 1940s when concepts of information, feedback, and regulation [Wiener 1948] were generalized from specific applications in engineering to systems in general, including systems of living organisms, abstract intelligent processes, and language. Origins of "cybernetics"

4. FUSION Anomaly. Cybernetics cybernetics, interdisciplinary science dealing with communication and control systems in living organisms, machines, and organizations. http://fusionanomaly.net/cybernetics.html

Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache Cybernetics This nOde last updated February 26th, 2004 and is permanently morphing... (7 Cauac (Rain) / 7 K'ayab (Turtle) 69/260 - 12.19.11. cybernetics cybernetics (sì´ber-nèt´îks) noun (used with a sing. verb) The theoretical study of communication and control processes in biological, mechanical, and electronic systems, especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems. [From Greek kubernêtês, governor, from kubernan, to govern.] - cy´bernet´ic adjective - cy´bernet´ically adverb - cy´bernet´icist or cy´berneti´cian (-nî-tîsh´en) noun Cybernetics Cybernetics, interdisciplinary science dealing with communication and control systems in living organisms, machines, and organizations. The term was first applied in 1948 to the theory of control mechanisms by American mathematician Norbert Wiener . Cybernetics developed from investigations into how information is transformed into desired performance. The science arose out of problems that were encountered in the development of so-called electronic brains and of automatic-control mechanisms for military apparatuses. According to cybernetics, the human brain and nervous system coordinate information to determine which actions will be performed; control mechanisms for self-correction in machines serve a similar purpose. This principle, known as feedback , is the fundamental concept of automation. One of the basic tenets of cybernetics is that information can be statistically measured in accordance with the laws of probability. Purposive behavior in humans or in machines requires control mechanisms that maintain order by counteracting the natural tendency toward disorganization.

5. American Society For Cybernetics - Index American Society for cybernetics home page. ASC members have an active interest in first and second order cybernetics,general systems thinking and the http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/

Cybernetics ... "the science and art of understanding" - Humberto Maturana "interfaces hard competence with the hard problems of the soft sciences" - Heinz von Foerster AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS WHAT'S NEW NEWSLETTER JOIN ASC CONTACT INFO COME JOIN US AT THE 2008 ASC CONFERENCE! The 2008 ASC Conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 11 - 15 May 2008. For more information, please refer to the 2008 Conference webpage: http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2008/index.htm ABOUT THE ASC Information on the Society, its structure, its operations, etc. Welcome! Administration Constitution Affiliations History ... Trustees We stand FOUNDATIONS Our Focal Subject: Cybernetics on the shoulders of giants Defining 'Cybernetics' Cybernetics Timeline ... Glossary LINKS TO ONLINE RESOURCES Connections to Materials, Places and People Related to Cybernetics Explore and Enjoy! Webspaces Centers ASC Cyberneticians Journals ... Organizations ASC WAVEFRONT Ongoing Activities and Initiatives by the Society Conversations Contributions ASC Publications ASC Bookstore ... ASC Events ASC CONTACTS ASC BUSINESS OFFICE American Society for Cybernetics 2033 K Street NW, Suite 230

6. Cybernetics There are many definitions of cybernetics and many individuals who have influenced the definition and direction of cybernetics. http://www.gwu.edu/~asc/cyber_definition.html

Definitions of Cybernetics There are many definitions of cybernetics and many individuals who have influenced Cybernetics takes as its domain the design or discovery and application of principles of regulation and communication. Cybernetics treats not things but ways of behaving. It does not ask "what is this thing?" but "what does it do?" and "what can it do?" Because numerous systems in the living, social and technological world may be understood in this way, cybernetics cuts across many traditional disciplinary boundaries. The concepts which cyberneticians develop thus form a metadisciplinary language by which we may better understand and modify our world. CYBERNETICS: DEFINITIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS "a science concerned with the study of systems of any nature which are capable of receiving, storing, and processing information so as to use it for control"-A.N. Kolmogorov "Cybernetique= the art of growing"A.M. Ampere "the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine"-Norbert Wiener "the art of securing efficient operation"-L. Couffignal

7. CYBERNETICS (2) Perhaps because the field is still young, there are many definitions of cybernetics. Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, engineer and social philosopher, http://pcp.lanl.gov/asc/CYBERNETICS.html

P RINCIPIA C YBERNETICA ... EB Parent Node(s): Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems CYBERNETICS (1) The science of communication and control in animal and machine. (2) Perhaps because the field is still young, there are many definitions of cybernetics. Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, engineer and social philosopher, coined the word "cybernetics" from the Greek word meaning steersman. He defined it as the science of communication and control in the animal and the machine. Ampere, before, him, wanted cybernetics to be the science of government. For philosopher Warren McCulloch, cybernetics was an experimental epistemology concerned with the communication within an observer and between the observer and his environment. Stafford Beer, a management consultant, defined cybernetics as the science of effective organization. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson noted that whereas previous sciences dealt with matter and energy, the new science of cybernetics focuses on form and pattern. (3) A way of looking at things and a language for expressing what one sees (Margaret Mead) The term derives from the Greek word for steersman. Initially, the science of

8. Cybernetics The Principia Cybernetica Web site includes sections on cybernetics systems theory and their integration. The site includes lists of basic books and http://www.thinking.net/Cybernetics/cybernetics.html

Links to cybernetics-related sites: The Principia Cybernetica Web http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DEFAULT.html Pangaro's Definition of Cybernetics http://www.pangaro.com/published/cyber-macmillan.html This article gives Paul Pangaro's definition of cybernetics, as well as how it differs from AI (artificial intelligence). Additional articles and presentations about cybernetics are available on the home page of Pangaro Incorporated, www.pangaro.com. American Society for Cybernetics http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/ The Society's home page includes links to their pages on the history of cybernetics, prominent figures in the development of cybernetics, and their newsletter archives. Stanford Electronic Humanities Review Issue on Constructions of the Mind http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html Volume 4 no. 2 of the Stanford Electronic Humanities Review was devoted to a discussion of Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities. There are several articles of interest here, including pieces by Douglas Hofstadter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner Goedel, Escher, Bach, and three articles involving famous cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, including a discussion of ethics and second-order cybernetics (the application of cybernetic principles to cybernetics itself) and an interview with him. Cybernetics and Human Knowing http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/chk

9. A Curriculum For Cybernetics And Systems Theory List of suggested books, periodicals, television shows and computer programs for a classroom curriculum or individual study in cybernetics and systems http://www.well.com/~abs/curriculum.html

A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory Alan B. Scrivener abs@well.com FIRST DRAFT (c) 1 March 1990 by Alan Scrivener SECOND DRAFT (c) 22 August 2002 by Alan Scrivener New! Beginning in September 2002, I will be sharing a free e-Zine, "Cybernetics in the Third Millenium" (C3M), about 1,000 - 18,000 words per issue and about one isssue every other month. If you are interested in a free subscription to this electronic newsletter, please email abs@well.com with C3M in the subject. CONTENTS Introduction What This Is Cybernetics and Systems Theory Defined Why We Need Cybernetics and Systems Theory Now ... Feedback Requested INTRODUCTION What This Is This is a list, with reviews, of suggested books, periodicals, television shows and computer programs for a classroom curriculum or individual study in cybernetics and systems theory. It does not (yet) include a course plan, glossary, or extended bibliography. I was asked to write this by some teachers who received a copy of class notes I prepared for a course in "Understanding Whole Systems" sixteen years ago at the University of California at Santa Cruz. They asked how I would revise it based on what I know today. This document answers that question. [A similar web site exists at the Principia Cybernetica Project . - ABS 8/11/96] Cybernetics and Systems Theory Defined Right off, let's dispense with the childish belief that words "have" meanings. Charles Dodson / Lewis Carroll was close to the mark with this dialogue between Alice and Humpty Dumpty:

10. Cybernetics And Systems Theory The following links provide general background information on the field of cybernetics and Systems Theory, an interdisciplinary academic domain. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CYBSYSTH.html

Cybernetics and Systems Theory The following links provide general background information on the field of Cybernetics and Systems Theory , an interdisciplinary academic domain. This material was collected and is provided in the context of the Principia Cybernetica Project , but can be consulted independently of the rest of the project. Although there are relatively few research centers and even fewer educational programs devoted to the domain, a lot of activity is going on in between established departments. This is shown by the number of associations , conferences and journals active in the domain. The best way of getting acquainted with the main ideas of cybernetics and systems theory is to read a few of the classic books or papers defining the domain. Some of these books are freely available through our Principia Cybernetica library . Other, specific bibliographic references can be found in the library database of the Department of Medical Cybernetics and AI at the University of Vienna. There also exists more general reference material , including our own Web Dictionary of basic concepts.

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12. Cybernetics Home Page - University Of Reading Department of cybernetics, University of Reading, UK. http://www.cyber.reading.ac.uk/

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13. Computational And Systems Biology: Home Page Interdepartmental cybernetics Program, University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.cs.ucla.edu/C&SB/

HOME Joseph DiStefano III, Chair Sharon Hori Student Affairs Officer Address: 4436 Boelter Hall UCLA Los Angeles CA 90095 SPRING 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS Spring 2008 Office Hours will be announced during Week 1. For now, please email Sharon to schedule an appointment. The Major is designed primarily for highly motivated students interested in interdisciplinary activities in life sciences, behavioral sciences, and the computational, control, communication and information branches of engineering and computer sciences. Primary emphasis is on integrative computational and systems biology studies. Students have several options for in-depth studies: a coherent integration of courses selected from one of five designated concentrations in Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Neurosystems, Biomedical Systems or Computer Systems; or from the broader concentration areas of life sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering and applied mathematical sciences, or an integration of courses from these areas. The Major is appropriate preparation for employment or for graduate studies in any of the concentration areas, with emphasis on interdisciplinary activities. It is especially geared toward interdisciplinary computational, biosystems/systems biology training of research-oriented students, preparing them for graduate/postgraduate studies and research. It is also appropriate preparation for professional school studies in medicine, public health, dentistry, business, engineering and law.

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16. BSP :: The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal Home Page The Open cybernetics and Systemics Journal, is an Open Access online journal which publishes research articles, reviews, and letters in the http://www.bentham.org/open/tocsj/

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17. Cybernetics A simple view of cybernetics is as the science of communications and control in animal and machine. cybernetics, and the related domain of systems science http://www.squidoo.com/cybernetics

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19. Cybernetics And Stochastic Systems cybernetics is the science of control and a precursor of complexity theory. Whilst generally applied to deterministic artificial machines these techniques http://www.calresco.org/lucas/systems.htm

Cybernetics and Stochastic Systems by Chris Lucas "Compared to the analytical procedure of classical science with resolution into component elements and one-way or linear causality as basic category, the investigation of organized wholes of many variables requires new categories of interaction, transaction, organization, teleology..." Ludwig von Bertalanffy "This new development has unbounded possibilities for good and for evil." Norbert Wiener , Cybernetics, 1948 Introduction Many of the concepts used within the complexity sciences derive originally from work done in the mid 20th Century on Cybernetics (Wiener), based on the earlier work on Information Theory (Shannon), and General Systems Theory (von Bertalanffy). These ideas were all attempts to quantify in a rigorous way the treatment of systems as an interdisciplinary science. In other words they were a break from the old views that specialist subjects required specialist ideas. Additionally cybernetics is concerned with the control of systems, the issues of regulation and stability that also face us in the treatment of complex systems. Most recent work on cybernetics has related to mechanical systems (e.g. robots and bionics), but these ideas have always been more general and here we shall restate their relevance to biological and social situations. Systems Systems are the lifeblood of complexity thinking and can be defined as a group of interacting parts functioning as a whole and distinguishable from its surroundings by recognizable boundaries. Systems have properties that are emergent, that are not intrinsically found within any of the component parts. They exist only at a higher level of description (e.g. an engine isn't a feature of valves, pistons, or any set of parts in isolation, they have to be suitably inter-connected).

20. Cybernetics - Definition From The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Definition of cybernetics from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cybernetics

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