Norbert Wiener
26 November 1894 – 18 March 1964
Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher who founded the field of cybernetics, the study of control and communication in animals and machines. A child prodigy, he made major contributions to stochastic and noise processes, harmonic analysis, and the mathematics of feedback systems. He spent most of his career as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Life events
Norbert Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri, a child prodigy tutored intensively by his father.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe earned his doctorate from Harvard University at the age of eighteen, with a dissertation on mathematical logic.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe joined the mathematics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent his career.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe gave a rigorous mathematical treatment of Brownian motion, now known as the Wiener process.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis wartime research on predicting the motion of aircraft led him toward the mathematics of feedback and prediction.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe published Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, founding the field of cybernetics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe published a widely read book exploring the social and ethical implications of automation and cybernetics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received the U.S. National Medal of Science from President Lyndon Johnson.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died of a heart attack in Stockholm in 1964.
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