Cybernetics is one of the new breeds of Research areas in Computer Science , which deals with communication and control in the machines and computers. It is study of the factors related to communication and the feedback, which is an integral part of this process.
What is Cybernetics?
Louis Couffignal defines cybernetics as " the art of ensuring the efficacy of action ". This was one of the most important definitions of cybernetics. Cybernetics has been also used to refer to adaptive systems, complexity theory, artificial intelligence, complex systems, control systems, decision support systems, dynamical systems, mathematical systems theory, information theory, operations research, learning organizations, simulation, and systems engineering.
Modern Cybernetics
The coinage of the term cybernetics was done by Norbert Weiner, which he implied as “ teleological mechanisms ”. In modern times, however, cybernetics became synonymous with the research in control systems, logic modeling, neuroscience and electrical network theory.
The field of formal research in cybernetics was introduced by Wiener, McCulloch, W. Ross Ashby and W. Grey Walter. Weiner is the most important name in the past, present and future of cybernetics. He was the one who initiated the social connotations of cybernetics and his book on cybernetics is still considered to be of great help to the students of cybernetics.
Research in Cybernetics
The most important institution, which is involved with the advancement of this field of computer research, is the Biological Computer Lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana or Champaign. From the year 1958, this has been the center of all kinds of research related to this field of computer science.
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