Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics

by David A. Mindell

Book Overview

Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, David A. Mindell shows how the modern sciences of systems emerged from disparate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801880572
• ISBN13: 9780801880575
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.9"