Norbert Wiener

By admin , 21 December 2015
Norbert
Wiener
Male
Description

Founder of cybernetics, Wiener pioneered the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Cybernetics, the field he founded, formalized the notion of feedback, with many implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.

Pure and applied mathematician with implications for computer science and other disaplines
Date of Birth
1894-11-26
Date of Death
1964-03-18
Norbert Wiener

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