Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series and Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series)
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Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, David A. Mindell shows how the modern sciences of systems emerged from disparate...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801880572
ISBN13:9780801880575
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:439 Pages
Weight:2.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.9" x 9.9"
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