Norbert+Wiener

was an American mathematician and founder of [|cybernetics]. From 1919 until 1960 Wiener was professor at MIT. In his 1948 book //Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine//, he describes how a chess program could be developed using a depth-limited minimax search with an evaluation function. || =Photos= toc to Norbert Wiener, Paris Cybernetic Congress 1951 || =Quotes= Quote from //Science in Rewiew: Cybernetics, a New Science//
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 * [[image:norbert_wiener_3.jpg width="218" height="218" link="http://onionesquereality.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/an-anecdote-to-norbert-wiener/"]] ||~  || **Norbert Wiener**, (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964)
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 * Gonzalo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates El Ajedrecista

Quote by Norbert Wiener from //Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth//

=Selected Publications=
 * Norbert Wiener (**1948**). //[|Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine]// - MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
 * Norbert Wiener (**1953**). //[|Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth]// - MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
 * Norbert Wiener (**1964**). //God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion// - MIT Press, Cambridge, MA - available as [|pdf reprint]
 * [|David Mindell], [|Jérôme Segal], [|Slava Gerovitch] (**2003**). //[|Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union]//. in [|Mark Walker], [|Science and Ideology]: A Comparative History » Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, covers the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress

=See also=
 * History of Computer Chess.
 * Leonardo Torres y Quevedo

=External Links=
 * [|Norbert Wiener from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Norbert Wiener]
 * [|Details for Norbert Wiener - Oberwolfach Photo Collection]
 * [|Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety]
 * [|The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener] by [|Stephen Pfohl]

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