Cybernetics : the Macy Conferences 1946-1953 : transactions

Cybernetics : the Macy Conferences 1946-1953 : transactions / edited by Claus Pias.

"Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for thenew science of cybernetics. These conferences, known as the Ma...

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Corporate Author: Cybernetics. Circular causal and feed back mechanisms in biological and social systems (Conference)
Other Authors: Pias, Claus (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Zurich : Diaphanes, [2016]
Series:Qu (Zurich, Switzerland)
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Cybernetics > Congresses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Editorial Note; The Age of Cybernetics / Claus Pias; 1949; Participants; Introductory Discussion; The Psychological Moment in Perception / John Stroud; The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation / Lawrence S. Kubie; Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory / Heinz von Foerster; Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition; Sensory Prosthesises / Norbert Wiener; References ; 1950; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program / Frank Fremont-Smith; Introductory Remarks / Warren S. McCulloch
  • Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the Central Nervous System / Ralph W. GerardThe Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible / J.C.R. Licklider; The Redundancy of English / Claude E. Shannon; Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions / Margaret Mead; On the Development of Word Meanings / Heinz Werner; The Development of Language in Early Childhood / John Stroud; The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation and in Neurosis / Lawrence S. Kubie
  • Appendix I: Body Symbolization and Development of Language / Lawrence S. KubieAppendix II: References; 1951; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program; A Note by the Editors; Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups / Alex Bavelas; Communication Between Men: The Meaning of Language / Ivor A. Richards; Communication Between Sane and Insane: Hypnosis / Lawrence S. Kubie; Communication Between Animals / Herbert G. Birch; Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine / Claude Shannon; In Search of Basic Symbols / Donald M. Mac Kay
  • Appendix I: The Nomenclature of Information Theory / Donald M. Mac KayExplanatory Glossary; Alphabetical Index of Terms Used in Information Theory and Related Communication Theory; Appendix II: References; 1952; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. FoundationConference Program; A Note by the Editors; The Position of Humor in Human Communication / Gregory Bateson; The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept / Lawrence S. Kubie; Homeostasis / W. Ross Ashby; Discrimination and Learning in Octopus / J.Z. Young; Reduction of the Number of Possible Boolean Functions / John R. Bowman
  • Central Excitation and Inhibition / Ralph W. GerardMechanical Chess Player / W. Ross Ashby; Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs / G. Evelyn Hutchinson; Investigations on Synaptic Transmission / Walter Pitts; Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology / Henry Quastler; Appendix I: References; 1953; Participants; Foreword; The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program; Introductory Remarks / Warren S. Mc Culloch; Studies on Activity of the Brain / W. Grey-Walter; Semantic Information and its Measures / Yehoshua Bar-Hillel; Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired / Yuen Ren Chao

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