In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary life of Norbert Wiener, the founding father of cybernetics - the science “control and communication in the animal and the machine”.

Outline
00:00 - Intro
02:06 - The early years of Norbert
09:00 - Europe and WWI
15:50 - MIT days
19:30 - Norbert’s marriage
22:39 - Generalised harmonic analysis
28:18 - The interactions with Hopf and Paley
31:14 - Bush and the analog computer program
35:55 - WWII, Bigelow and prediction theory
40:41 - Rosenbleuth and teleological machines
47:56 - Mexico and Norbert’s biological investigations
51:25 - Cybernetics
1:00:16 - The human behind Norbert Wiener
1:01:53 - Outro

Episode links
Things named after Wiener: [ Ссылка ]
Autobiography: [ Ссылка ]
Biography: [ Ссылка ]
Wiener filter: [ Ссылка ]
Paley-Wiener theorem: [ Ссылка ]
Wiener-Kinchin theorem: [ Ссылка ]
Vannevar Bush: [ Ссылка ]
Julian Bigelow: [ Ссылка ]
Behavior, Purpose and Teleology: [ Ссылка ]
Arturo Rosenblueth: [ Ссылка ]
Cybernetics: [ Ссылка ]
Out of control: [ Ссылка ]
A scientist rebels: [ Ссылка ]
Moral and technical consequences of automation: [ Ссылка ]

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Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund.

The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to A. Bastani, B. Sawicki, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, as well as the ETH and mirrorlake studios.

Music was composed by A New Element.

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