cybernetics

a history of cybernetics and world events which may have been affected or affecting.

Cybernetic Publications

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Design for a Brain (Ashby William, Ross.)

1952
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What is Cybernetics (Guilbaud, G.T.)

1960
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An Approach to Cybernetics (Pask, Gordon)

1961
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Cybernetics: or Control, and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

1961
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Introduction to Cybernetics (Ashby, William Ross)

1964
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Decision and Control (Beer, Stafford)

1966
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Cybernetic Modelling (Klir, J and Valach, M)

1967
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Cybernetics Simplified (Porter, A)

1969
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Fundamentals of Cybernetics (Kelly, Kevin)

1972
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Brain of the Firm (Beer, Stafford)

1972
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Designing Freedom (Beer, Stafford)

1973
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On Human Communication (Cherry, Colin)

1978
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Brains, Behaviour and Robotics (Albus, James S.)

1981
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Computers & the Cybernetic Society (Arbib, Michael A)

1984
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Reinventing Man - The Robot Becomes Reality (Aleksander, Igor and Burnett)

1984
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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Barrow, John D and Tipler Frank J)

1986
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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Wiener, Norbert)

1988
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Self-Organizing Systems (Andrew, Alex M.)

1989
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Functional Modelling of Systems (Studies in Cybernetics S.) (Baylin, Edward N)

1990
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The Geometry and Physics of Knots (Atiyah, Michael)

1990
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Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function (Batty, Michael & Longley, Paul)

1994
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Cyberspace for Beginners (Buick, Joanna and Jevtic Zoran)

1995
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Diagnosing the System for Organisations (Beer Stafford)

1995
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines

1995
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Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness (Aleksander, Igor)

1996
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How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality (Bak, Per)

1997
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The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (Arbib, Michael A.)

1998
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The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (Ball, Philip)

2001
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Intelligent Systems: Architecture, Design, Control (Albus, James)

2001
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Engineering of Mind: An Introduction to the Science of ... (Albus, James S.)

2001
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System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical Signals (Baura, Gail, D)

2002

System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical Signals (Biomedical Engineering)

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Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Bateson, Gregory)

2002
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Linked: The New Science of Networks. Perseus (Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo)

2002
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Linked: The New Science of Networks (Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo)

2002
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Dynamics of Complex Systems (Bar-Yam, Yaneer)

2003
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Information Theory and Evolution (Avery, John)

2003
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Quantum - A Guide for the Perplexed (Al-Khalili, Jim)

2003
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Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account... (Bateson, Mary, Catherine)

2004

Our 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)

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A Missing Link in Cybernetics: Logic and Continuity (Andrew, Alex M)

2009

MIT publications

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Mathematics It's content, methods, and meaning vol 1

1956

translation aided by grant NSF-G 16422 from the national science foundation

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Mathematics, it's content, methods, and meaning vol 2

1956
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Lisp 1.0 Programmer Manual

1960
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Understanding Media (McLuhan)

1964
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Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual

1965
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The Art of the MetaObject Protocol

1991

seminal book describing the development of the common lisp object system

Programming Languages

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FORTRAN

1957
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LISP

1958
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ALGOL

1958
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CPL

1963
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APL

1964
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BCPL

1966
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Simula

1967
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B

1969
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SmallTalk

1969
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FORTH

1970
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C

1972
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Prolog

1972
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MACRO-11

1973
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Scheme

1975
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Common Lisp

1984
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Haskell

1990
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Java

1990
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Arc

2008

Computer Hardware

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Zuse Z3

May 1941
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Colossus Mark 1

Feb 1944
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Harvard Mark I – IBM ASCC

May 1944
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Colossus Mark 2

June 1944
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ENIAC (US)

Jul 1946
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Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (Baby) (UK)

jun 1948
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Modified ENIAC (US)

Sep 1948
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EDSAC (UK)

may 1949
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Manchester Mark 1 (UK)

Oct 1949
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CSIRAC (Australia)

Nov 1949
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Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)

10 May 1950
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IBM 701

29 Apr 1952
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IBM 650

1953
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IBM 702

1 oct 1954
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IBM System/360

7 Apr 1964
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VAX-11/780

25 Oct 1977

Stafford Beer

activities and publications relating to stafford beer

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publication of Cybernetics and Management

1959

work w/ SIGMA

1961 - 1966

Science in General Management formed with Roger Eddison

work w/ IPC

1966 - 1970

International Publishing Corporation

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Publication of Decision and Control

1966

project cybersyn

Oct 1970 - 11 sep 1973
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Viable System Model coined

1972
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Publication of Brain of The Firm

1972
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Designing Freedom

1974
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Publication of Platform for Change

1975
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Publication of Transit; Poems

1977
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Publication of The Heart of Enterprise

1979
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Publication of Brain of the Firm (2nd edition - translated to russian)

1981
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Publication of Transit; Poems 2nd edition

1983
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Publication of Diagnosing the System for Organisations

1985
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Publication of Pebbles to Computer: The Thread

1986
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Lecture 40 Years of Cybernetics

1990
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Publication of World In Torment

Dec 1992
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Publication of Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity

1994
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death

23 aug 2002

Political Events

Stalin in Power in USSR

3 Apr 1922 - 5 Mar 1953

world war 2

1939 - Dec 1945

The Battle of Stalingrad (ww2)

17 Jul 1942 - 2 Feb 1943

one of turning points in war

D-Day (ww2)

6 Jun 1944 - 25 Aug 1944
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Bombing of Hiroshima

6 Aug 1945
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Bombing of Nagasaki

9 Aug 1945
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Paris General Strike

May 1968

Allende Presidency of Chile

4 sep 1970 - 11 sep 1973
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publication of How to read Donald Duck (dorfman)

1971
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Overthrow of Allende's Chile

11 Sep 1973

Marshall Mcluhan

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Birth

21 jul 1911
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Publication of The Mechanical Bride

1951
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Publication of The Gutenberg Galaxy

1962
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Publication of Understanding Media

1964
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Publication of The Medium is the Massage

1967
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Publication of War and Peace in the Global Village

1968
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Publication of From Cliche to Archetype

1970
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death

31 dec 1980

Mathematical Publications

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Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls. (godel)

1930

The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis with the Axioms of Set Theory. Princeton University Press.

church-turing thesis

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