cybernetics
a history of cybernetics and world events which may have been affected or affecting.
Cybernetic Publications
Design for a Brain (Ashby William, Ross.)
1952What is Cybernetics (Guilbaud, G.T.)
1960An Approach to Cybernetics (Pask, Gordon)
1961Cybernetics: or Control, and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
1961Introduction to Cybernetics (Ashby, William Ross)
1964Decision and Control (Beer, Stafford)
1966Cybernetic Modelling (Klir, J and Valach, M)
1967Cybernetics Simplified (Porter, A)
1969Brain of the Firm (Beer, Stafford)
1972Fundamentals of Cybernetics (Kelly, Kevin)
1972Designing Freedom (Beer, Stafford)
1973On Human Communication (Cherry, Colin)
1978Brains, Behaviour and Robotics (Albus, James S.)
1981Computers & the Cybernetic Society (Arbib, Michael A)
1984Reinventing Man - The Robot Becomes Reality (Aleksander, Igor and Burnett)
1984The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Barrow, John D and Tipler Frank J)
1986The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Wiener, Norbert)
1988Self-Organizing Systems (Andrew, Alex M.)
1989Functional Modelling of Systems (Studies in Cybernetics S.) (Baylin, Edward N)
1990The Geometry and Physics of Knots (Atiyah, Michael)
1990Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function (Batty, Michael & Longley, Paul)
1994Cyberspace for Beginners (Buick, Joanna and Jevtic Zoran)
1995Diagnosing the System for Organisations (Beer Stafford)
1995Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines
1995Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness (Aleksander, Igor)
1996How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality (Bak, Per)
1997The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (Arbib, Michael A.)
1998Engineering of Mind: An Introduction to the Science of ... (Albus, James S.)
2001Intelligent Systems: Architecture, Design, Control (Albus, James)
2001The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (Ball, Philip)
2001Linked: The New Science of Networks (Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo)
2002Linked: The New Science of Networks. Perseus (Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo)
2002Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Bateson, Gregory)
2002System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical Signals (Baura, Gail, D)
2002System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical Signals (Biomedical Engineering)
Dynamics of Complex Systems (Bar-Yam, Yaneer)
2003Information Theory and Evolution (Avery, John)
2003Quantum - A Guide for the Perplexed (Al-Khalili, Jim)
2003Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account... (Bateson, Mary, Catherine)
2004Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
A Missing Link in Cybernetics: Logic and Continuity (Andrew, Alex M)
2009MIT publications
Mathematics It's content, methods, and meaning vol 1
1956translation aided by grant NSF-G 16422 from the national science foundation
Mathematics, it's content, methods, and meaning vol 2
1956Lisp 1.0 Programmer Manual
1960Understanding Media (McLuhan)
1964Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual
1965The Art of the MetaObject Protocol
1991seminal book describing the development of the common lisp object system
Programming Languages
FORTRAN
1957ALGOL
1958LISP
1958CPL
1963APL
1964BCPL
1966Simula
1967B
1969SmallTalk
1969FORTH
1970C
1972Prolog
1972MACRO-11
1973Scheme
1975Common Lisp
1984Haskell
1990Java
1990Arc
2008Computer Hardware
Zuse Z3
May 1941Colossus Mark 1
Feb 1944Harvard Mark I – IBM ASCC
May 1944Colossus Mark 2
June 1944ENIAC (US)
Jul 1946Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (Baby) (UK)
jun 1948Modified ENIAC (US)
Sep 1948EDSAC (UK)
may 1949Manchester Mark 1 (UK)
Oct 1949CSIRAC (Australia)
Nov 1949Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)
10 May 1950IBM 701
29 Apr 1952IBM 650
1953IBM 702
1 oct 1954IBM System/360
7 Apr 1964VAX-11/780
25 Oct 1977Stafford Beer
activities and publications relating to stafford beer
publication of Cybernetics and Management
1959work w/ SIGMA
1961 - 1966Science in General Management formed with Roger Eddison
Publication of Decision and Control
1966work w/ IPC
1966 - 1970International Publishing Corporation
project cybersyn
Oct 1970 - 11 sep 1973Publication of Brain of The Firm
1972Viable System Model coined
1972Designing Freedom
1974Publication of Platform for Change
1975Publication of Transit; Poems
1977Publication of The Heart of Enterprise
1979Publication of Brain of the Firm (2nd edition - translated to russian)
1981Publication of Transit; Poems 2nd edition
1983Publication of Diagnosing the System for Organisations
1985Publication of Pebbles to Computer: The Thread
1986Lecture 40 Years of Cybernetics
1990Publication of World In Torment
Dec 1992Publication of Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity
1994death
23 aug 2002Political Events
Stalin in Power in USSR
3 Apr 1922 - 5 Mar 1953world war 2
1939 - Dec 1945The Battle of Stalingrad (ww2)
17 Jul 1942 - 2 Feb 1943one of turning points in war
D-Day (ww2)
6 Jun 1944 - 25 Aug 1944Bombing of Hiroshima
6 Aug 1945Bombing of Nagasaki
9 Aug 1945Paris General Strike
May 1968Allende Presidency of Chile
4 sep 1970 - 11 sep 1973publication of How to read Donald Duck (dorfman)
1971Overthrow of Allende's Chile
11 Sep 1973Marshall Mcluhan
Birth
21 jul 1911Publication of The Mechanical Bride
1951Publication of The Gutenberg Galaxy
1962Publication of Understanding Media
1964Publication of The Medium is the Massage
1967Publication of War and Peace in the Global Village
1968Publication of From Cliche to Archetype
1970death
31 dec 1980Mathematical Publications
Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls. (godel)
1930The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis with the Axioms of Set Theory. Princeton University Press.