cybernetics: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, 2nd ed. (1961), presents a very general discussion. Constantin Virgil Negoita, Cybernetics and Applied Systems (1992), combines theory, applications, and methodology.

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Nature Machine Intelligence - Return of cybernetics. May 27, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - A Short History of Cybernetics in the United States (PDF). Feb 06, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Rise of the machines: the lost history of cybernetics. Oct 14, 2025
Add new Web site: IEEE Spectrum - Wiener's Cybernetics Legacy and the Growing Need for the Interdisciplinary Approach (PDF). Sep 05, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Oxford - Department of Computer Science - Cybernetics: A Definition (PDF). Jun 26, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: an evolutionary perspective (PDF). Mar 07, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature Machine Intelligence - Return of cybernetics. Jan 25, 2025
Add new Web site: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics - The Philosophy of Cybernetics. Oct 19, 2024
Add new Web site: The Open University - OpenLearn - Cybernetics. Sep 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cybernetics. Jul 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Cybernetics. Feb 23, 2024
Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Cybernetics. Nov 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems - History of Cybernetics. Aug 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Australian National University - What is Cybernetics? Jul 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cybernetics. Mar 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Princeton University - Cybernetics and Information Technology. Dec 30, 2022
Add new Web site: History Computer - The Complete Guide to Cybernetics. Sep 28, 2022
Added cross-references. Jun 10, 2021
Add new Web site: The American Society For Cybernetics - Cybernetics. Jan 15, 2014
Article revised. Mar 10, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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