Norbert Wiener

Born

November 26, 1894

Died

March 18, 1964 · age 69

From

Columbia, Missouri, USA

Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society.