cybernetics: [20] Cybernetics was first coined in French, as cybernétique, in the 1830s. But then it was used literally for the ‘art of governing’ (it is a derivative of Greek kubernétēs ‘steersman, governor’, from kubernan ‘steer’, source of English govern). The English term, ‘theory of control and communication processes’, is a new formation, introduced in the late 1940s by the founder of cybernetics, the US mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964). => govern
cybernetics (n.)
coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Greek kybernetes "steersman" (metaphorically "guide, governor") + -ics; perhaps based on 1830s French cybernétique "the art of governing."
The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. [Norbert Wiener, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964]
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1. To achieve this, researchers have drawn upon cybernetics.
为了这一目的, 研究人员引用了控制论.
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2. Always an interdisciplinary subject, cybernetics was seen by its founding fathers moreover as transdisciplinary.
控制论始终是一个涉及多种学科的课题, 它的创始人都认为它是跨学科的.
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3. This paper considers system theory , information theory and cybernetics as pole stars.
本文以系统论 、 信息论、控制论作为整个研究工作的指导思想.
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4. The paper considers system theory , information theory and cybernetics as pole star.
本文以系统论 、 信息论和控制论作为整个研究工作的指导思想.
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5. Cybernetics was a victim of batch - mode computing.
