Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener · Technology & Engineering
Founded cybernetics and statistical communication theory.
1894, Columbia, Missouri, United States — 1964, Stockholm, Sweden
United States
Norbert Wiener is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Founded cybernetics and statistical communication theory.
Norbert Wiener founded cybernetics, the science of communication and control in animals and machines, and made foundational contributions to statistical communication theory and stochastic processes. A child prodigy who earned a Harvard doctorate at 18, he spent his career at MIT. His father, the linguist Leo Wiener, was a Jewish immigrant from Białystok, and Wiener wrote about his Jewish ancestry.
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Founded cybernetics and statistical communication theory.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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