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SPEAKER:
David A. Mindell
Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing
Macvicar Faculty Fellow
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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
Today, the relationship between feedback, control and computing is associated with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In his book, David A. Mindell shows how the modern sciences of systems emerged from disparate engineering cultures and their convergence during World War II.
"Between Human and Machine" is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, and is available at:
http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/s02/s02mibe.htm.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
David A. Mindell is the Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Literature from Yale University in 1988. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT in 1996.
David Mindell's Homepage
The information on this page was accurate as of the day the video was added to MIT World. This video was added to MIT World on 2002-11-05.
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