Word: wieners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a "longhair" who had coined the word "cybernetics"* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now Wiener's book, Cybernetics (TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), is a classic, and Wiener is a prophet who is listened to by shorthaired, hardheaded businessmen. Many of them agree wholeheartedly that the "cybernetic revolution" he predicted is already in progress...
Last week, as guest of honor at a Manhattan dinner of the Society for the Advancement of Management, Wiener described briefly the mathematical and electronic tools that are the basis of modern control mechanisms. Then he launched into his standard warning: automatic factories and mechanical "brains" to run them may come into use too quickly and society may not be able to absorb or provide for the human hands and brains that they will replace. This is very likely to happen, said Wiener, if there is a third World War. The armed services will require enormous numbers...
...Wiener stated that scientists, who must always search for truth, "cannot put their heads under bushel baskets and freely accept the orders of others...
...Scientists must not be milked dry and then hung like witch doctors," said Norbert Wiener of M.I.T., at last night's Law Forum. He urged freedom of scientific thought and inquiry...
...Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" will be debated at a Law Forum Friday by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Norbert Wiener of M.I.T., Lean Sxilard of the University of Chicago, and Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy. Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, will preside at the meetings at 8 p.m. in Rindge Tech...