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Cybernought: the founder of cybernetics is largely forgotten. That's a pity.

Publication: Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 792 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
THOUGH NORBERT WIENER was one of those 20th-century illuminati who ushered humankind into the age of intelligent machines, few people today know much about him. So whatever prompted Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman to write Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics, it wasn't any expectation of a bestseller. Wiener is past all likelihood of rescue by fashion. The authors must simply have been drawn to their subject by one of those virtuous impulses that are their own reward.

Dark Hero, Conway and Siegelman claim, was "eight years in the making and a dozen more in the planning." Alas, while their hearts may be in the right places, these...

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