Cybernetics : the Macy Conferences 1946-1953 : the complete transactions / edited by Claus Pias.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pias, Claus, editor.

Series:

Qu (Zurich, Switzerland)

Qu

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cybernetics--Congresses.

Cybernetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (738 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Zurich, [Switzerland] ; Berlin, [Germany] : diaphanes, 2016.

Summary:

Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr.Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cybernetics.These conferences, known as the Macy conferences, constituted a landmark for the field.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Editorial Note; The Age of Cybernetics / Claus Pias; 1949; Participants; Introductory Discussion; The Psychological Moment in Perception / John Stroud; The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation / Lawrence S. Kubie; Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory / Heinz von Foerster; Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition; Sensory Prosthesises / Norbert Wiener; References ; 1950; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program / Frank Fremont-Smith; Introductory Remarks / Warren S. McCulloch

Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the Central Nervous System / Ralph W. GerardThe Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible / J. C. R. Licklider; The Redundancy of English / Claude E. Shannon; Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions / Margaret Mead; On the Development of Word Meanings / Heinz Werner; The Development of Language in Early Childhood / John Stroud; The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation and in Neurosis / Lawrence S. Kubie

Appendix I: Body Symbolization and Development of Language / Lawrence S. KubieAppendix II: References; 1951; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program; A Note by the Editors; Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups / Alex Bavelas; Communication Between Men: The Meaning of Language / Ivor A. Richards; Communication Between Sane and Insane: Hypnosis / Lawrence S. Kubie; Communication Between Animals / Herbert G. Birch; Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine / Claude Shannon; In Search of Basic Symbols / Donald M. Mac Kay

Appendix I: The Nomenclature of Information Theory / Donald M. Mac KayExplanatory Glossary; Alphabetical Index of Terms Used in Information Theory and Related Communication Theory; Appendix II: References; 1952; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. FoundationConference Program; A Note by the Editors; The Position of Humor in Human Communication / Gregory Bateson; The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept / Lawrence S. Kubie; Homeostasis / W. Ross Ashby; Discrimination and Learning in Octopus / J. Z. Young; Reduction of the Number of Possible Boolean Functions / John R. Bowman

Central Excitation and Inhibition / Ralph W. GerardMechanical Chess Player / W. Ross Ashby; Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs / G. Evelyn Hutchinson; Investigations on Synaptic Transmission / Walter Pitts; Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology / Henry Quastler; Appendix I: References; 1953; Participants; Foreword; The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program; Introductory Remarks / Warren S. Mc Culloch; Studies on Activity of the Brain / W. Grey-Walter; Semantic Information and its Measures / Yehoshua Bar-Hillel; Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired / Yuen Ren Chao

Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics / Warren S. Mc Culloch

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

3-03734-607-8

OCLC:

945975579