L' eroe oscuro dell'età dell'informazione. Alla ricerca di Norbert Wiener, padre della cibernetica
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Chi è Norbert Wiener? Pochi lo sanno, eppure ha cambiato le nostre vite: ci ha fornito gli strumenti che utilizziamo per muoverci nel nostro tempo intricato e complesso; senza di lui non esisterebbero la teoria dell'informazione, il concetto di computazione e l'idea di rete come la conosciamo oggi; è il padre della cibernetica. Conway e Siegelman danno voce a questo "eroe oscuro", raccontando la vita straordinaria di un uomo straordinario, carica di luci e ombre, di voli e cadute. Bambino prodigio, matematico geniale vittima del maccartismo a causa delle sue idee progressiste, genio eccentrico ed esplosivo in lotta con una sindrome maniaco-depressiva, Wiener non smise mai di mettere in guardia la società dalle possibili conseguenze derivanti dalle tecnologie ispirate alle sue ricerche. "L'eroe oscuro dell'età dell'informazione" ripercorre la storia di un'intelligenza smagliante, offrendo una chiave di lettura unica per comprendere la radice dell'intreccio tra scienza, tecnologia, cultura e società che caratterizza le nostre vite.
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- Pagine: 550
- Data di uscita: 30-10-2019
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Norbert Wiener was an American Scientist who found the field of Cybernetics, which is basically the study of complex systems and has a lot in common with control theory. My dissertation advisor is a control theory guru and suggested this book as a way to get my feet wet so to speak. I've always admi Leggi tutto
A biography of Norbert Wiener, the genius who helped to create modern computing (both digital and analog), communication as a fundamental science, and especially modern control systems through the mathematics to describe feedback, in the science he called cybernetics. It took me quite a while to get Leggi tutto
Norbert Wiener, the brilliant and tortured founder of cybernetics, has amassed a small shelf of biographical and autobiographical materials. Dark Hero , written by the prolific and thoughtful pair of Conway and Siegelman, is easily the most accessible, gripping, and breezy of the available accounts. Leggi tutto
I think this book does a great injustice to Norbert Wiener. It captures the events of his life, but not the compelling grip of his ideas. Norbert's ideas were some of the most interesting and impactful ideas in history, and yet they seem quite boring in the way the author summarizes them. I would su Leggi tutto
This was a highly engrossing book about the father of cybernetics and one of the pioneers of inter disclipnary research. The book tracks Wiener being brought up as a child prodigy, his early successes right up to him mentoring the next generation. He worked tirelessly to apply cybernetics theory to
Wiener may seem an archetypal out of touch professor, but a more rounded character emerges from the book. In one of the unsympathetic anecdotes, a colleague asks him for help with a calculus problem. Wiener replied that the answer was 5; the colleague said he didn’t understand; Wiener said he’d do i Leggi tutto
Fascinating story of the life and research of Norbert Wiener. I could hardly put it down. The boom had a quick pace and was engaging. Wiener had an incredible intellect and tragic life. This book nicely tells the story in *mostly* chronological order and beautifully fleshes out the story of Wiener a Leggi tutto
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