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Norbert
Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964)
was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of
mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child
prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical
noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering,
electronic communication, and control systems.
Wiener is
considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it
relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering,
systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the
organization of society.
Norbert
Wiener is credited as being one of the first to theorize that all intelligent
behavior was the result of feedback mechanisms, that could possibly be
simulated by machines and was an important early step towards the development
of modern artificial intelligence.