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cyberneticsScience concerned with how systems organize, regulate, and reproduce themselves, and also how they evolve and learn. In the laboratory, inanimate objects are created that behave like living systems. Applications range from the creation of electronic artificial limbs to the running of the fully automated factory where decision-making machines operate up to managerial level. Cybernetics was founded and named in 1947 by US mathematician Norbert Wiener. Originally, it was the study of control systems using feedback to produce automatic processes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Students interested in physiology and the augmentation of human senses through cybernetics will find the text informative as well as witty and satisfying. Today, cybernetics can be used in practically any sphere of human activity: It performs the function of general, interdisciplinary knowledge. There has been a fusion of virtual reality and cybernetics. |
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