. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener were mathematician-scientists, both child prodigies born near the turn of the century. As young men each made profound contributions to ...

An examination of the fundamental role cybernetics played in the birth of cognitive science and the light this sheds on current controversies. The conceptual history of ...

About the life of the social scientist who developed the "double bind" theory of schizophrenia, concentrates on his intellectual development and contributions to the ...

The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering. Warren S ...

Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective ...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Cybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to ...