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back to homepage of cyberneticians.com "Cybernetics saves the souls, bodies, and material possessions from the gravest dangers." "The future science of government should be called ‘la cybernetique.’ " —André-Marie Ampere, 1843 "The science of control and communication in animal and machine." —Norbert Wiener, 1948 "Until recently, there was no existing word for this complex of ideas and… I felt constrained to invent one...." —Norbert Wiener, 1954 "La Cybernetique est l’art d’assurer l’efficacite de l’action." —Louis Couffignal, 1956 "The science of effective organization." —Stafford Beer "The study of the immaterial aspects of systems." —W. Ross Ashby "The art of and science of manipulating defensible metaphors." —Gordon Pask "A way of thinking." —Ernst Von Glasersfeld "First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems." —Heinz von Foerster, 1974 "The science and art of human understanding." —Humberto Maturana |
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Canadian Broadcasting 1969 - Warren speaks of brains and thinking machines, science and his legacy, and the need to be 'completely humble to the facts and completely haughty to man...' 21 minutes quicktime 40 MB |
| Heinz von Foerster's Books | |
Childhood - Heinz speaks about his earliest books 7 minutes quicktime 10MB Cybernetics - Scan of Heinz's primary cybernetics bookshelf 9 minutes quicktime 12MB |
| Pask Lectures | Colloquy of Mobiles |
Portion of live lecture by Gordon Pask focused on 'entailment meshes', structures for representing knowledge ('knowing'). Entailment Meshes - quicktime 9'20" at 320x240, monaural sound, 35 MB download Enquiries for permission to use should be addressed to pan @ pangaro.com
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Videos of Pask's interactive exhibit at the Institute College of Art in London in 196x. in motion These clips were crudely transfered from film and may be difficult to view. Master shot 10 minutes quicktime silent 34 MB download Close-up 4 minutes quicktime silent 15 MB download Enquiries for permission to use should be addressed to pan @ pangaro.com |
| Cybernetics | Entailment Meshes |
A story of how articifial intelligence arose from cybernetics. The earliest neural net theory, the relationship to Turing Machines, and the dominance of symbolic computing. Videotaped during Stanford Course CS377A Autumn 2001 Introduction to Cybernetics, these clips are raw footage without audio adjustments or editing. Cybernetics and the birth of AI - quicktime 35MB Produced by Claudia L'Amoreaux. Video of a talk entitled 'media–interaction–cybernetics' given at the Digital Arts and New Media Program of UC Santa Cruz. See also presentation slides [7MB PDF] of the talk, shown during the video. Pangaro describes his initiation into the world of finite-state machines. Brainiacs 80 seconds - streaming quicktime 2MB
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An introduction to Pask's knowledge models, called entailment meshes. Before semantic nets or the semantic web, Gordon Pask created a calculus for conversation. Videotaped during Stanford Course CS377A Autumn 2001 Introduction to Cybernetics, these clips are raw footage without audio adjustments or editing. Context is a 6 minute chalk-talk with useful background, connection to AI, and a quick example of meshes. quicktime 27MB Working through an example starts from scratch and builds an entailment mesh step-by-step. First 10 minutes of talk that continues in further parts below. quicktime ~50MB Part II 10 minutes - quicktime ~50MB Part III 9 minutes - quicktime ~50MB Part IV 8 minutes - quicktime ~50MB Part V 9 minutes - quicktime ~50MB Produced by Claudia L'Amoreaux. Supportive texts THOUGHTSTICKER, software that relies on entailment meshes. A brief model of entailment meshes, contains a minimal 'how-to' guide to making meshes.
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