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Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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<p> <i>Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine</i> is a book written by <a href="/facts/Norbert_Wiener/cVMRAHCU">Norbert Wiener</a> and published in 1948. It is the first public usage of the term "<a href="/facts/Cybernetics/4qb58zbt">cybernetics</a>" to refer to self-regulating mechanisms. The book laid the theoretical foundation for <a href="/facts/Servomechanism/lS3l6sY2">servomechanisms</a> (whether electrical, mechanical or hydraulic), automatic <a href="/facts/Navigation/sGGAJ0AQ">navigation</a>, <a href="/facts/Analog_computing/3NhYoCML">analog computing</a>, <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">artificial intelligence</a>, <a href="/facts/Neuroscience/o5RV8Cas">neuroscience</a>, and reliable <a href="/facts/Communications/EGEkchsT">communications</a>. </p><p>A second edition with minor changes and two additional chapters was published in 1961. </p>