Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Telephony
Author: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Telephony
Author: The Telegraph and Telephone Journal
Author: Industrial Arts Index
Author: The Engineering Index
Author: John Butler JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
The American Telephone Journal
Author: Automatic Telephone Central Office Circuit Switch AN/TTC-39 Data Base
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone switching systems, Electronic
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Reissue of the 1961 second edition
Author: Norbert WienerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262537842
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners. With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. At the core of Wiener's theory is the message (information), sent and responded to (feedback); the functionality of a machine, organism, or society depends on the quality of messages. Information corrupted by noise prevents homeostasis, or equilibrium. And yet Cybernetics is as philosophical as it is technical, with the first chapter devoted to Newtonian and Bergsonian time and the philosophical mixed with the technical throughout. This book brings the 1961 second edition back into print, with new forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy Mitter. Contemporary readers of Cybernetics will marvel at Wiener's prescience—his warnings against “noise,” his disdain for “hucksters” and “gadget worshipers,” and his view of the mass media as the single greatest anti-homeostatic force in society. This edition of Cybernetics gives a new generation access to a classic text.