Cybernetics
In the Lehigh Libraries, a dedicated User Experience and Assessment Librarian works to ensure that our websites and digital interfaces are easy to understand and interact with. This concept of human-computer interaction can be traced back to the interdisciplinary field of cybernetics, which arose in the late 1940s to study how biology and technology interacted and in turn changed each other through feedback mechanisms. In this book, Wiener coined the term cybernetics and helped systematize research into automation, computer engineering, and artificial intelligence. When Lehigh’s Center for the Information Sciences was established in 1962, “cybernetics” was listed alongside “artificial intelligence… general systems theory, mechanical translation, communications theory, and speech communication” as areas of research. You can learn more about this innovative Lehigh Center in the next exhibit case.
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964).
Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. New York, Paris: Wiley; Hermann et Cie, [1948].
Lehigh University Catalog Record:https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/asa/Record/298889
A version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.