“Norbert Wiener compiled a short list of selected readings on cybernetics in 1952, then an updated short bibliography of cybernetics in 1956”

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Selected readings on Cybernetics

Ashby, W. R. ‘The Behavioral Properties of Systems in Equilibrium.’ American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 59 (1946), 682–6.

Brillouin, L. ‘Life, Thermodynamics, and Cybernetics.’ American Scientist, Vol. 37 (Oct. 1949), 554–568.

Conference on Cybernetics. Transactions of the Sixth Conference on Cybernetics. March 24–25, 1949. New York, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

Cybernetics. Transactions of the Seventh Conference on Cybernetics. March 23–24, 1950. Heinz von Foerster, Ed. New York, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

Fano, R. M. The Transmission of Information. M.I.T. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Technical Report No. 65. Part II. Technical Report No. 149.

Weaver, Warren. ‘Science and Complexity,’ American Scientist, Vol. 36, No. 4, 536–544.

Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics. Cambridge, Mass. Technology Press. 1948.

Wiener, Norbert. The Human Use of Human Beings. Boston, 1950; London, Eyre and Spottiswoode.

Prepared for:
Mr. Henry Guttmann
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March 21, 1952

A short bibliography of cybernetics

Ashby, W. Ross, Design for a Brain, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London), 1952.

Bell, D. A., Information Theory and its Engineering Applications, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, 1953.

Berkeley, E. C., Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1949.

Brillouin, L., Science and Information Theory, Academic Press, New York, 1956.

de Broglie, L., ‘La Cybernétique,’ report of Conference in Paris, 1951, published by Rev. opt. (165 rue de Sèvres, Paris).

Cherry, C., On Human Communication, The Technology Press of M.I.T. & John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, (Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London), 1957.

Conferences on Cybernetics, Transactions, 7th (1950) to 10th (1953), Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York.

Gabor, D., Lectures on Communication Theory, published by M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., 1951.

Goldman, S., Information Theory, Constable & Co., Ltd., London, 1953.

Hebb, D. O., The Organization of Behavior, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, (Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London), 1949.

de Latil, P., Thinking by Machine, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1956, translated from La Pensée Artificielle, Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1953.

Locke, W. N., and A. D. Booth, Machine Translation of Languages, The Technology Press, M.I.T., and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1955.

Macmillan, R. H., An Introduction to the Theory of Control, Cambridge University Press, London, 1951.

Morse, P. M., and G. E. Kimball, Methods of Operations Research, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1951.

Proceedings Second London Symposium on Applications of Communication Theory, London, 1952, Butterworth Scientific Publication, London, 1953.

Shannon, C. E., and W. Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1949; published earlier in Bell System Tech. J., 27, 1948, pp. 379 and 623.

Walter, G., The Living Brain, Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., London, 1953.

Wiener, N., Cybernetics, The Technology Press, M.I.T. and John Wiley & Sons, (Hermann et Cie., Paris), New York, 1948.

Wiener, N., The Human Use of Human Beings, The Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1950 and Doubleday & Co., Inc., New York, 1954.

Woodward, P. M., Probability and Information Theory with Application to Radar, Pergamon Press, Ltd., London, 1953.

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Norbert Wiener’s bibliography of popular treatments of cybernetics, c. 1951

Popular Treatments (culled from The Readers’ Guide…)

‘Brain is a Machine,’ Newsweek, Nov. 15, 1948.

‘In Man’s Image,’ Time, Dec. 27, 1948.

‘Machine in Man’s Image,’ Sat. Review, Jan. 8, 1949.

‘Brain is a Machine,’ Science Digest, Feb. 1949.

‘Machines that Think,’ Business Week, Feb. 19, 1949.

C. Eisenhart, ‘Cybernetics, a New Discipline,’ Science, Apr. 22, 1949.

J. B. Thurston, Review of Cybernetics, The Sat. Rev., Apr. 23, 1949.

J. D. Trimmer, ‘Instrumentation and Cybernetics,’ Scientific Monthly, Nov. 1949.

‘Thinking Machine,’ Time, Jan. 23, 1950.

A. Standen, ‘Mind and/or Machine,’ Commonweal, May 27, 1950.

Mark Starr, Review of The Human Use of Human Beings, The Sat. Review, Aug. 19, 1950.

Irwin Edman, ‘Mind in Matter,’ New Yorker, Oct. 14, 1950.

‘Feed back to Idiocy,’ Time, Jan. 8, 1951.

Current Biography, March 1951.

‘If Robots Run the Works,’ J. K. Lagemann, Nation’s Business, March 1951.

Popular Treatments by Wiener:

‘World of Robot Brains,’ Science Digest, Sept. 1949.

‘Electric Brains with Feelings,’ Science Digest, Sept. 1949.

‘Too Big for Private Enterprise,’ Nation, May 20, 1950.

‘Too Damn Close,’ Atlantic Monthly, July 1950.

‘How U.S. Cities Can Prepare for Atomic War,’ with Karl Deutsch, Giorgio de Santillana, etc., Life, Dec. 18, 1950.

The typescript also contains several struck-through duplicate or superseded entries, including ‘Saturday Review, Apr. 23, 1949’, ‘Instrumentation and Cybernetics, Saturday Review, Aug. 19, 1950’, ‘Feed-back to Idiocy’, and a separate heading ‘Mind and/or Machine’.