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Born: 26 Nov 1894 in Columbia, Missouri, USA Died: 18 March 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden He worked in the areas of mathematical logic, cybernetics, stochastic processes, quantum theory and gunfire control.

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Tools For Thought: Ex-Prodigies and Antiaircraft Guns By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/5.html

Wired Archive: Norbert Wiener Stories involving Wiener. www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/norbert_wiener

Norbert Wiener Brief summary of his work, and references. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/../../Wiener_Norbert.html