cybernetics

[ UK /sˌa‍ɪbənˈɛtɪks/ ]
NOUN
  1. (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)
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How To Use cybernetics In A Sentence

  • General System Theory, cybernetics, noncausality, and a nonprofessional stance can be employed by dolts as well as geniuses, by demons as easily as by saints, and by all in between.
  • There is a specialized science, cybernetics, studying these problems of the general systems theory.
  • On one page the "Manifesto of the Mad Farmer Liberation Front" (Wendell Berry's plea for family-scaled organic agriculture); on the next, Norbert Wiener's cybernetics.
  • He is best known for his work in cybernetics, the study of control systems, especially systems that blend human nerves with electronic networks.
  • 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 Believer
  • The competition has been organised to promote cybernetics, the study of the interaction between computers and humans.
  • The word Cybernetics comes from the Greek word kybernotos which means a governor - helmsman, actually, the kybernotos was the pilot of a ship.
  • Stine's first column did deal with biocybernetics, but it was hardly a report on something "too new even for our articles. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • [Arins] wrote papers on the descriptive theory of functions…, theoretical computer science, and cybernetics.
  • It's uncanny the way Turing and Shannon and all these people come together with ideas of computability, digital information theory, and cybernetics at around the same time as DNA falls into place.
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