Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

male, deceased (1964)
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing...
Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick

male
Kevin Warwick is professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK. He was born on 9th February 1954 in Coventry, UK. He carries out...
Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

male, deceased (1980)
Gregory Bateson was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some...
Heinz von Foerster

Heinz von Foerster

male, deceased (2002)
Heinz von Foerster was a scientist combining physics and philosophy. He worked in the field of cybernetics and was essential for the development of...

Gordon Pask

male, deceased (1996)
Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask was an English cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional...
Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons

male, deceased (1979)
Talcott Edgar Frederick Parsons was for many years the best-known sociologist in the United States, and indeed one of the best-known in the world....
Francis Heylighen

Francis Heylighen

male, 49 years old
Francis Heylighen (born 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist. He works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Dutch-speaking...
Walter Pitts

Walter Pitts

male, deceased (1969)
Walter Pitts was a logician who worked in the field of cognitive psychology. He proposed landmark theoretical formulations of neural activity and...
Ernst von Glasersfeld

Ernst von Glasersfeld

male
Ernst von Glasersfeld is a proponent of radical constructivism and is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research...
Robert Trappl

Robert Trappl

male
Robert Trappl is a cybernetics and artificial intelligence researcher. He holds a PhD in psychology, as well as a diploma in sociology from the...