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- noun   someone who studies 
cybernetics  
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Examples
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“Yes, you do bear a resemblance to Doctor Noonian Soong, the cyberneticist who constructed me.”
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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A year and a half earlier, Commander Bruce Maddox, a cyberneticist attached to the Daystrom Technological Institute, had moved to dismantle and reverse-engineer Data.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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What follows is part murder mystery (who tried to kill Maddox, who caused the disappearance of another, legendary and somewhat hermit-ish, cyberneticist?) and part romance (new Enterprise security officer Rhea McAdams has the hots for our Mr. Data, it seems) with a good bit of space epic thrown in.
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In the episode "A Measure of a Man," a Starfleet cyberneticist orders the dismantling of Data for scientific study; Picard protests this decision but the cyberneticist claims that Data is the property of Starfleet, not a sentient autonomous being.
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Was the "selfless" cyberneticist going to do something perverse to his colleagues, or harm them in the guise of helping them?
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Our Pulp Fiction Heritage and the Significance of Moldering Magazines Chris Perridas 2008
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The last blurb, for example, might cause the reader to wonder about the irony in the "selfless cyberneticist," giving his colleagues something that is "Much too good!"
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Our Pulp Fiction Heritage and the Significance of Moldering Magazines Chris Perridas 2008
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The last blurb, for example, might cause the reader to wonder about the irony in the "selfless cyberneticist," giving his colleagues something that is "Much too good!"
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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Was the "selfless" cyberneticist going to do something perverse to his colleagues, or harm them in the guise of helping them?
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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That particular theory was advanced at least as far back as cyberneticist Norbert Wiener's autobiography.
Galton's Theory of Dysgenic Catholic Celibacy: Steve Sailer 2005
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That particular theory was advanced at least as far back as cyberneticist Norbert Wiener's autobiography.
Archive 2005-06-05 Steve Sailer 2005
 
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