Today is Norbert Wiener's Birthday!
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Happy Birthday
to the
Father of Cybernetics
Born: November 26, 1894
in Columbia, Missouri
Died: March 18, 1964
in Stockholm, Sweden
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Two months before his death, in a ceremony at the
White House, Norbert Wiener was awarded the National Medal of Science.
The citation by President Johnson said, " . . . for marvelously versatile
contributions, profoundly original, ranging within pure and applied mathematics,
and penetrating boldly into the engineering and biological sciences." |