cybernetics
IPA: sˈaɪbɝnˈɛtɪks
noun
- The theory/science of communication and control in living organisms or machines.
- The art/study of governing, controlling automatic processes and communication.
- Technology related to computers and Internet.
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Examples of "cybernetics" in Sentences
- The term cybernetics was coined by Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician of the twentieth century.
- Sankai, 48, is one of Japan’s foremost experts in cybernetics, the science of merging man with machine.
- The new ecosystem was known as cybernetics, which was given a wider meaning than the same word was in the West.
- It was the century of Clerk Maxwell, yes-I'm thinking mainly of his work on what we call cybernetics-and Babbage and Peirce and Ricardo and Clausewitz and a slew of other thinkers whom we're stifi living off of.
- It was the century of Clerk Maxwell, yes -- I’m thinking mainly of his work on what we call cybernetics -- and Babbage and Peirce and Ricardo and Clausewitz and a slew of other thinkers whom we’re still living off of.
- He created the term by combining "cybernetics," the science of replacing human functions with computerized ones, and "punk," the raucous music and nihilistic sensibility that became a youth culture in the 1970s and '80s.
- The possibility for this sort of analysis was recognized early and practical applications were developed more or less independently by modelers in economics, ecology, industrial management, and what was then called cybernetics [53].
- My favorite anecdotes in the book concern another old hero of mine, Norbert Wiener, who coined the term "cybernetics" and whose decidedly non-commercial The Human Use of Human Beings was published in paperback by Jason Epstein as an Anchor book.
- The characteristic feature of the new view of unity was the idea of cross-fertilization, instantiated in the creation of war-boosted inter-disciplines such as cybernetics, computation, electro-acoustics, psycho-acoustics, neutronics, game theory, and biophysics.
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