cybernetics

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  1. noun The theoretical study of communication and control processes in biological, mechanical, and electronic systems, especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems.

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  • His writing, heavily inspired by the Surrealist painters, includes the short story collection The Terminal Beach and the novel Crash STAFFORD BEER—Expert in management (operational research and social systems) and effective organization (cybernetics). —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
  • The word in any case was a misnomer; it had been applied to men like Dr. Waterson through wholesale confusion of psychiatry and cybernetics, encephalographs and electronic brains, electricity and electronics, and had been so generally used that it had stuck. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • I was fascinated by biological cybernetics, which took principles developed during the war by American mathematician Norbert Wiener for how to hit a moving target with a gun, for example, and applied them to understanding the function of animals. —  Omni: December 1993
  • If Gyorgi and his colleagues had anything to do with cybernetics, I didn't know about it. —  BEN BOVA
  • According to the historians of cybernetics, its forefathers had been spurred on by the hope of learning the mystery of consciousness. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
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  1. From Greek kubernētēs, governor, from kubernān, to govern.
 

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