Eight Definitions of Cybernetics

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A Twitter user provides eight definitions of [[cybernetics]]:

1. “The field of control and communication in the animal and the machine”(N. WIENER, 1948, p.19).
2. “The study of systems that are open to energy but closed to information and control – systems that are information tight” (W.R. ASHBY, 1956, p.5).
3. “Science of informational structures in technical and non-technical domains” (basically concerned with data treatment) (STEINBUCH, 1955, p.325).
4. “The theory and technique of systems which transform messages” (FRANK.1969, p.30).
5. “(the) mathematical and constructive treatment of general structural relations, functions and systems” (von CUBE, 1967, p.11-16).
6. “The theory of interconnectedness of possible dynamic self-regulated systems with their subsystems” (KLAUS, 1965).
7. “(the general theory of the transformation of information, and & the theory and principles of building various transformers of information” (1966), GLUSHKOV
8. “Discipline which studies regulations and communication in the living beings and the man-built machines” (J de ROSNAY, 1975, p.93)

[[cybernetics]] [[interesting]]