pemCybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine emReprint of 1961 Second Editionem emby Norbert Wiener is a seminal work that had long-ranging implications for the fields of computers, automation, electrical engineering, neuroscience, and communications.ppbrppAuthor Norbert Wiener b. 1894, d. 1964 was a mathematician and philosopher, as well as a long-term professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. A child prodigy, Wiener graduated from high school at just 11 years old, and completed his BA in mathematics from Tufts University at the age of 14. By age 19, he had received his Ph.D from Harvard for a dissertation on mathematical logic.ppbrppWhile he was later a pacifist, Wiener contributed to the war efforts in both world wars, working on ballistics during World War I and anti-aircraft guns during World War II. By the late 1940s, he had grown concerned with the militarization of science, and stopped contributing to any military pr