When1: 1942
When2: 1958
Who: Norbert Wiener [Wiener, Norbert]
What: mathematician
Where: USA
works\ Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine [1942 and 1947]; Human Use of Human Beings [1950]; Nonlinear Problems in Random Theory [1958]
Detail: He lived 1894 to 1964 and studied non-linear problems. He developed animal and machine control and communication theory {cybernetics, Wiener} and feedback-using self-regulating system theory. He helped develop artificial limbs. He studied automata {logical net}, information theory, and principles involved in communication between sources and sinks.
Epistemology
Information has encoding, transmission, and decoding. A possibly noisy channel transmits information. Channel has information capacity. The same information can use different codes, one of which can be optimum.
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